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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.

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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.

Damn hes an Idiot his staffers should bring him out of the Vacuum Message tube days. You know the military has thier own Vacuum tubes less traffic :)

I wish my staff would send me an internet.

The last sentence is... gimme-a-fork-I-need-to-gouge-my-eyes-outish...

Who is this guy?

Well - it's no wonder, the dude is from Alaska.

Ted Stevens. Republican US Senator from Alaska.

Ranking member(?) on the Senate Commerce Committee and his explaination for voting down:
The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's.

I feel dumber having read his message.

I feel dumber having read his message.

My thoughts exactly. In fact, I found it hard to read. This is scary to think people like this are the ones passing legislation. How the hell did this guy get voted into office? Sad, just very sad.

I had a very hard time reading it. Several passages I had to read a few times to get the basic meaning of what he was attempting to say. Not only are his ideas on the internet laughable, but his speaking style is reminiscent of Mush Mouth from the Fat Albert show.

Amazingly enough I think he was trying to explain his opposition to Net Neutrality, go figure that a guy like him would come out against this. This is basically living proof that corporate interests are placed far above the interests of the citizens and small business interests in this country. Sad...very sad.

This guy has absolutely no clue as to what he is talking about, only that he is supposed to say that net neutrality is bad because the companies that are paying him off tell him that he should say its bad.

Yay for the mafi...errr...congress.

What it sounds like to me is that someone who had just enough knowledge of how things involving the internet work to make themselves appear enlightened tried to explain some things to this guy. Idiocy spreads.

That, or the IT department where he works is doing a terrible job, something they did caused delay of delivery on one of his emails, then to cover their collective butts blamed it on "a traffic jam on teh internets."

http://notatruck.ytmnd.com/

I met Ted Stevens quite a long time ago. I was in high school, and he'd just been elected to his...4th? term I think. I found him smarmy and disturbing, but a good friend of mine went to work for him (and is now a mouthpiece for the petroleum industry in Alaska). Having watched him since, and especially in the last couple years, I think he's lost his mind. If he wasn't currently the most long-serving member of the US Senate, he'd be quite entertaining.

Where'd you find all this L2? Link please? :)

I don't know where L2 found it but I saw it here (http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=Non-Gameplay&message.id=370707)first this morning. There is a link to audio and some blog as well.

Poking around, I found this (http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1512499). There's a link to the mp3.

The Internet is a truck, a very very small truck. Not just one truck but lots and lots of tiny little trucks. They drive the trucks through the tubes and it's like a traffic jam, but in a tube. So, it's more like a clogged drain, but the clog keeps moving around. Then the trucks move to other places and sometimes they crash into each other and the Internet Tube Patrol officers have to unclog the new... clog. So the Internet Tube Officers are more like plumbers, driving trucks, and cleaning up the crashed trucks that cause the tube to clog. It's a very messy business, these clogs. Clog it once... shame on you. Clog it twice... clog it twice and it can't be clogged again.

Hope that clears it up for everyone.

I totally see his point. I was going to send three internets just this morning but couldn't because of all the traffic.

Damn trucks.