How The Internet Works - With Tubes

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 2, 2006 @09:29PM from the yay-tubes dept.

Chardish writes "In an attempt to explain his reasons for voting against a Net Neutrality bill this past Thursday, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens delivered a jaw-dropping attempt to explain how the Internet works. Said Stevens: 'They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.'"

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Re:Subliterate Legislators by natedubbya · 2006-07-03 03:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Thanks for the obligatory South bashing. We're all better people because of it. Now everybody, ratchet up those stereotypes one more notch!
In case you miss my sarcasm, this parent should be modded troll, not insightful. I don't care if his base statement is true, it's obviously thrown in to stir up hate over something (and a group of people) that doesn't happen anymore.