Gotta love the pompus declarations on technology from the 85-year-old fuddy-duddy from my home state. He's the most senior member of the Senate - can't he afford a well-informed speechwriter? Or, at least he could talk to his great grandson...
From techdirt.com:
"In defending his vote against network neutrality legislation, Senator Ted Stevens (the same man who once wanted to blame file sharing networks for porn) gave an amusing layman's definition of how the internet works, and why net neutrality is bad: "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." "
In related material, here's an interesting tidbit from our friends at Wikipedia:
"When [Stevens] is discussing issues that are especially important to him (such as opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling), he wears a necktie with The Incredible Hulk on it to show his seriousness. Marvel Comics responded by sending him free Hulk paraphernalia and throwing a Hulk party for the Senator."
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