Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) on the internets: "It's a series of tubes."

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Ted Stevens (IE Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" Senator) tried to defend his vote against net neutrality with the following lucid explanation of how the internet works.

There's a rumor on the internets that Republicans can't understand any technology more complex then an oil pump.

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.

...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.
- Ted Stevens
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http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/03/0643238
 
Ted Stevens needs to be hit by a train or bus, RIGHT NOW. I can't stand people that are as stupid as him. Do people in Alaska even have a television? If so, why can't they see how much of an idiot he is?
 
Hahahahaha, that's fucking classic...a series of tubes. There should be some kind of test for each bill so if you fail your vote doesn't count.


And that ytmnd is classic as well...a series of tubes indeed.

EDIT: It seems to me like somebody tried to explain to him how the internet worked with a metaphor and he took it literally (very republican of him).
 
[quote name='Cheese']ug, the first sentence he calls it the 'internet consumers bill of rights' since when did the phrase 'bill of rights' mean 'asspounding?'[/quote]

The inalienable right to have your shit ruined by assholes.
 
[quote name='Cheese']The audio

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

ug, the first sentence he calls it the 'internet consumers bill of rights' since when did the phrase 'bill of rights' mean 'asspounding?'[/QUOTE]


listening to him talk is melting my brain, he talks about netflix and then say how movies get delivered to your house free shipping and you can order 10 movies transfering through the internet but not your personal internet.

I think i need to play some brain age to see how much dumber i am now
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']listening to him talk is melting my brain, he talks about netflix and then say how movies get delivered to your house free shipping and you can order 10 movies transfering through the internet but not your personal internet.

I think i need to play some brain age to see how much dumber i am now[/quote]

Maybe he was talking about LANs or something? It's hard to figure out the internet with all it's tubes and chutes and ladders and what not.
 
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