Someone on Sen. Ted Stevens' staff needs to discuss the internets with him. During the committee meeting last week where net neutrality was being discussed, Sen. Stevens gave some commentary so obtuse we can't grasp where he picked these ideas up. Our favorites from the bunch that Wired has collected (with our emphasis):
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?This guy's statements make Sen. Cornyn look like Stephen Hawking. And isn't that a scary thought?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.(BB says: tell that to all the women who live off their eBay sellings.)
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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.
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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 violation of net neutraility that hits you and me.
It's a sad fact that most of the assholes we elect (Repubs & Dems) are ignorant about most of the things they vote on. The reason they vote they way they do has nothing to do with fairness, logic or what's best for you and me. It has to do with which PAC or interest group gave them the most money.
Hilarious.
First Bush's "rumors on the internets," and now "I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff ..."
Homer Simpson..."I hear they have the internet on computers now." (or something close to that) That Cornyn comment was priceless.
in his defense, he's like a gazillion years old. he's still getting used to running water.