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How The Internet Works - With Tubes
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.'"
I voted for him every election because he may not be looking out for you, but he is looking out for me. I will probably do it again because I find nothing more humorous than watching a Stevens - Feinstein fight on CSPAN. The funny thing is the entire slashdot crowd won't be able to stop me until the old man retires.
Awesome!!
I can't believe this guy is the President pro Tempore of the senate (third in line of presidential succession).
Why not? He's not much dumber than the first in line, and less scary than number two.
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
In office, and still smarter than John Kerry.
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Too much Law; not enough Order.
And yet, right now, that's not looking too unappealing.
a world in progress...
So what you're saying is that our order of presidential succession right now is Cheney, Hastert, and Stevens? OH MY FUCKING GOD somebody please make sure this is changed come November 7, 2006. I know! I'll go vote in a couple districts to the west (where Hastert represents in Illinois) and make sure to convince people to vote against him on November 7, 2006. I can't exactly go to Alaska, but if Democrats get the majority in the Senate, someone else will become President Pro Tempore (maybe someone good like Obama). Oh yeah, don't forget to vote (and not using the electronic Diebold boxen) on November 7, 2006.
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That kind of retardo talk is why Congressmembers get lobbyists to write the laws. Senators, like other elected politicians, are good at only one thing: public "fundraising" (collecting corporate bribes). That gets them re/elected. Sitting politicians get reelected about 98% of the time, because the machine behind them can rig crazy-shaped districts to elect them by party registration.
Senators have it a little harder, because they are elected by their entire state. So they get the longest terms of any allowed, during which they can hand out public money as bribes to people in their state to stay popular.
Stevens is one of the worst. He's a Senator from the largest area state, with one of the smallest populations, a thousand frozen miles away from the rest of the US, so his people are spread so thin they don't talk to each other about him so much. His state economy is fairly simple, mostly a few fishing megacorps and oil gigacorps, But even so, Stevens gets $1.87 for Alaska from the rest of the country for every $1 Alaska sends to Washington DC - the second-fattest return in the country. Which builds things like a bridge to nowhere for his buddies who keep him reelected.
Stevens has to split the gig with Alaska's other Senator, who was appointed by her father, the governor. Of course they're all Republicans. Their cozy little team does a fantastic job, as measured by that return on their Federal investment.
It's just cruel that they're for hire by lobbyists outside Alaska who are such good writers that they can carve up the Internet for telcos, with a retard like Stevens speaking their lines and pulling the strings.
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The more data that flows through their "pipes", the more they can "bill" OTHER ISP's that connect through them
This clearly cuts both ways - those ISPs also bill mine! And guess who pays? Me. This is just a big zero-sum game. When there is more traffic, customers pay more. Period. The current buffet-style concept is on the way out.
You are under the misconception that some data is more important then other data.
This is a misconception? OK, let's do a trade. I will send you any picture in my personal collection (at least one whole megabyte). In return, I will ask for just a few kilobytes of data. You are getting a steal - a ratio of hundreds to one. The data I would like includes your SS number and driver's license number, your home phone and address, your work phone and address, date of birth, location of birth, all your credit card and bank account numbers, and your mother's maiden name. Thanks.
So your particular "types" of data you feel should get priority
Whomever is willing to back their talk with cash should get priority.