The implication of this article is a little smug and condescending. The guy may not have mastered the bucking bronco of grammar, but what he's saying isn't wrong. A fiber connection is indeed like a tube for which traffic has to queue for access, and not like a truck where you can add more or less cargo and it still gets there at the same time. I know that, and you know that, but my grandmother might find his explanation a lot clearer than how some/. readers would put it. If you were Alaskan, and he was talking about an arcane tax bill that affected you, you might even appreciate this kind of simplified language. I'm not saying you wouldn't laugh at him but you'd be grateful for the info.
Nothing in the article contributes to the actual debate on net neutrality. Some voters actually need the issues explained to them on a basic level-- if those people read this/. article they would feel like it was mocking them, and they'd pretty much be right. That's not how you get people on your side. Believe it or not, there are even smart people who don't know a stream from a datagram.
TV makers of today couldn't resist mixing in their dislike of Bush, Christians, etc
I don't think you need worry about that, since we're talking about Sky, the News International outlet that makes Fox look like some kind of intellectual hippie propaganda...
NUMBER TWO: Why did you resign?
NUMBER SIX: Dunno.
NUMBER TWO: Come now, surely we can discuss this like reas--
[NUMBER SIX whips out his 9mm and blows the rest of the cast apart while running and jumping. There is a massive explosion and he stares into the sunset in a vapid but moodily-lit profile]
NUMBER SIX [to camera]: Watch "Dream Team" Wednesdays at 8pm.
END.
I don't know. I probably won't bother watching it.
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The implication of this article is a little smug and condescending. The guy may not have mastered the bucking bronco of grammar, but what he's saying isn't wrong. A fiber connection is indeed like a tube for which traffic has to queue for access, and not like a truck where you can add more or less cargo and it still gets there at the same time. I know that, and you know that, but my grandmother might find his explanation a lot clearer than how some /. readers would put it. If you were Alaskan, and he was talking about an arcane tax bill that affected you, you might even appreciate this kind of simplified language. I'm not saying you wouldn't laugh at him but you'd be grateful for the info.
Nothing in the article contributes to the actual debate on net neutrality. Some voters actually need the issues explained to them on a basic level-- if those people read this /. article they would feel like it was mocking them, and they'd pretty much be right. That's not how you get people on your side. Believe it or not, there are even smart people who don't know a stream from a datagram.
I checked the PDF, and the actual characters (with their paragraphs) are:
1:s, 2:m, 3:ithy, 4:c, 5:o, 6:d, 7:e, 8:Ja, 9:e, 11:ie, 13:x, 14:t, 16:os, 18:t, 19:g, 20:p, 21:s, 23:a, 25:cgr, 26:e, 27:a, 29:m, 30:w, 31:f, 34:k, 35:a, 37:d, 38:p, 40:m, 42:q, 43:z and I didn't bother reading to the end.
which makes smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamwfkadpmqz
Maybe "smithycode" is just an identifier and J is some kind of key; that leaves the letters "a" and "z" with 26 letters in between...
NUMBER TWO: Why did you resign?
NUMBER SIX: Dunno.
NUMBER TWO: Come now, surely we can discuss this like reas--
[NUMBER SIX whips out his 9mm and blows the rest of the cast apart while running and jumping. There is a massive explosion and he stares into the sunset in a vapid but moodily-lit profile]
NUMBER SIX [to camera]: Watch "Dream Team" Wednesdays at 8pm.
END.
I don't know. I probably won't bother watching it.