Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on why he voted against Net Neutrality:
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.
Stupidity... will it cause the death of the interweb!?
Moderator: Officers
Stupidity... will it cause the death of the interweb!?
From www.ctrlaltdel-online.com:
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It's a transcript.
http://media.publicknowledge.org/stevens-on-nn.mp3
And yes... a RL american senator!
http://media.publicknowledge.org/stevens-on-nn.mp3
And yes... a RL american senator!
Porno clearly is lubed so it doesn't get stuck in the "tubes", otherwise the net would be sticky with the pearls of lag. YouTube and all the other mass video clip searches via google, etc.. are probably moving more data than any dedicated movie server. I'm sure lag is the reason that the Department of Defense doesn't conduct official business through the www.dod.gov website, it has nothing to do with vulnerabilities and bored 14 year-olds shitting on their world every summer vacation.
I'll have to go with that email he didn't recieve in a timely fashion was to inform him that he had to make a statement on this issue. He was too busy clogging my tubes with his non-job-related interweb activities to check his mail and hoofed it for the weekend. Thus, the pulling of information out of one's ass in a panicked manner to fill a few minutes. Prove me wrong.
I'll have to go with that email he didn't recieve in a timely fashion was to inform him that he had to make a statement on this issue. He was too busy clogging my tubes with his non-job-related interweb activities to check his mail and hoofed it for the weekend. Thus, the pulling of information out of one's ass in a panicked manner to fill a few minutes. Prove me wrong.
"There's no preparation and no guide, just what you've done before here with your life." -BR
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Personally, I think he is demonstrating to the public, what kinda diluted and moronic people make out the vast majority of people elected governments in most western countries, and, seemingly, especially in the USA. Too bad a large part of the public is equally stupid and would rather trust the politicians, than actually finding out how much bull they can can out.
Ps: My mom is a people elected official, so no offence meant!
Ps: My mom is a people elected official, so no offence meant!
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I find it more interesting that at the school I work at;
When a teacher goes off sick, they email their plan for the next day, so the teacher taking over knows what they are up to.
Any emails coming in from a telstra address (the schools is connected via Bigpond) arrive an hr later tops. Any sent from a non bigpong addy can take 1-2 days to arrive.
When a teacher goes off sick, they email their plan for the next day, so the teacher taking over knows what they are up to.
Any emails coming in from a telstra address (the schools is connected via Bigpond) arrive an hr later tops. Any sent from a non bigpong addy can take 1-2 days to arrive.
You know, correct me if i am wrong, but isnt communication about the same thing as commercialism? I mean ever sence the internet came along, businesses both big and small have grown at an incredible rate. Stocks, bonds, international businesses, telecommunications, world trade, etc etc etc. I mean i could go on forever. Everything from the the huge million dollar business deals to the local gasoline/petriolum price at your gas station all came through via internet right? (if not directly then it had a hand in it in some way) If not the communication for the plane tickets, deals, chatting to the NCO's and such, then the actual transfer of frunds from one bank account to another right?
*sigh* methinks Ted stevens lives in the woods. Not all of us alaskans do.. but there are some scary people that still live up in the mountains... Grizzley Adams and such. *wonders briefly if anyone is missing one named Ted*
~Zim
*sigh* methinks Ted stevens lives in the woods. Not all of us alaskans do.. but there are some scary people that still live up in the mountains... Grizzley Adams and such. *wonders briefly if anyone is missing one named Ted*
~Zim
Should have told him to go here the end of the internet for additional information. LOL
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