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Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash
necro81 writes "The NY Times is reporting that former Senator Ted Stevens was aboard a small plane with eight others that crashed in remote southwest Alaska Monday night. Some news outlets are reporting that he died, along with at least four others. Meanwhile, the North American CEO of aerospace firm EADS and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe was was also reported in the crash. Rescue crews from the Alaska Air National Guard reached the site about ten hours after the initial crash."
...since the internet is a series of tubes. Its not like a truck. It can get clogged.
Maybe it hit so hard it bounced?
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Turns out the bridge goes nowhere...
We can only hope you have found the tube meant for you.
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Don't you think it's a bit early for jokes?
Slashdot has really gone down the tubes these days.
Sen. Tubes: 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss
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My heartfelt sympathy goes out to those of us still living who held the perished ones dear.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Just remember, you're an asshole and will probably always be an asshole. Maybe someday you will also be old, and there will be things that are new to you, and hopefully the new generation will heap the same kinds of derision on you.
We can only hope that the next generation will not allow us to hold office so long we become totally detached from the people we represent.. That is, if we can get the last generation out of office by then.
Unfortunately, since his staff didn't mail his soul until Monday, it's not going to get to where it's going until Thursday. Until then he's still technically alive.
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Died, or FAKED HIS OWN DEATH?
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
"AK Senator Ted Stevens dies in a plane crash; Internet goes back to being made up of routers and fiber."
Farewell sir, may your journey onward be clogless in a big truck.
life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think
Rumor has it the plane was running Windows ME, so it crashed, came back up, and then crashed again.
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My heart goes out to those who were waiting for an ACK.
This is slashdot. We clog tubes. This unfortunately appears to have clogged the news in both directions... at least until the truck finally delivered the news.
Would you find it as hilarious if Maxine Waters died and someone posted "GOOD RIDDANCE?"
I'm a Libertarian, you insensitive clod! They can both die!
That is all.
Actually, we all deserve to die and we're going to get what we deserve.
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b) may not have actively revelled in his own evil.
I hope you don't mean the "evil" that he was completely exonerated of.
He was railroaded for political gain, and that's it.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
Ted Stevens was aboard a small plane with eight others that crashed in remote southwest Alaska Monday night.
So, the eight others that traveled with Ted Stevens did crash. Since there are reports that he died, it seems likely that he crashed too, bringing the total up to nine.
It's on purpose, so we have time to choke back the tears.
... or inspire a debate on the true meaning of "ironic" but having the head of a leading aerospace firm and the former head of NASA die on an airplane seems kind of, well, ironic.
It would seem that you are not aware that Sean O'Keefe survived the crash.
His many levels of experience in Aviation gave him the ability to take less damage from plane crashes. Alternatively, it may just be that I've played too many RPGs.
the Internet as being just like a sewer system, which is not at all correct.
That depends, are you talking delivery system or content?
Well. I'll agree that 'tubes' may be too simplified an explanation of the internet, even for children...
But you have to remember, this man was used to talking to Senators
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
Unless of course you're just an uncaring bastard.
Phew. Up until now I wasn't sure how I fit into all this.
I disagree. Do you show the same regard for people like Hitler?
Some of Hitler's art looks kinda interesting. And he was a best-selling author.
Mussolini?
I hear Mussolini made the trains run on time...
Stalin?
Because once they are dead, they can do nothing.
They can still vote in some jurisdictions if your campaign manager knows some people.