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Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains the internet to you

caudio51

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This is funny

http://media.publicknowledge.org/stevens-on-nn.mp3

There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

But this service isn't going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.

We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [...]

The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [?]

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.

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.

[...]

Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.

Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.

It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.

The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.
Mr. Stevens, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
 
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Sounds like Mr Stevens has been chasing moose for too long. :lookaroun
I'm going to sign him up for about a dozen good, hardcore porn sites so he can see what the internet is really all about.
 

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tedski said:
Sounds like Mr Stevens has been chasing moose for too long. :lookaroun
I'm going to sign him up for about a dozen good, hardcore porn sites so he can see what the internet is really all about.
:rofl:
 

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"Mr. Stevens, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

That was going through my mind as I tried to scroll down to the end of the quote.

Best line out of Billy Madison by the way.
 
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Ass hats like this are currently considering legislation concerning the internet, privacy, government surrveilance and even worse, social security.

Tell me again, who was it that said longevity was a good thing???

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Absolutely not a shining moment for my Senator...but he has done an immense amount of good for our state. Were it not for him, we'd be treated even more like a quaint backwater than we already are. Think I'm gonna have to drop a note on his office that he needs to do a lot better on this issue.
 

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The more I drink the more I can understand that
 
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