Senator Ted Stevens on the internet

[Dionysos]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/2/232335/3120

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


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.

My brain hurts.

[e-brake]

I think my IQ jsut got lower reading that.


These are the people that are leading our nation, were fucked.

[Zeonfiend]

This is why no one should be elected to Congress who's over the age of 40.

He's using Netflix as a weapon against the "download whole movies" crowd, arguing that the bandwidth to download entire movies directly from the Internet will clog up traffic on it. What he hasn't clued to is that the Net is only getting bigger and faster the more people that jump onto it, so in essence, his "tubes" aren't PVC piping running into someone's half bathroom anymore; they're on their way to turning into the goddamn Chunnel, so his point is irrelevant on a long enough timeline.

[Dionysos]

Originally Posted by Zeonfiend

What he hasn't clued to is that the Net is only getting bigger and faster the more people that jump onto it, so in essence, his "tubes" aren't PVC piping running into someone's half bathroom anymore; they're on their way to turning into the goddamn Chunnel, so his point is irrelevant on a long enough timeline.

I'm reading this from the other side of a couple 10Gig circuits. There's plenty of bw for anybody that wants to pay for it.

[Zeonfiend]

Originally Posted by Dionysos

I'm reading this from the other side of a couple 10Gig circuits. There's plenty of bw for anybody that wants to pay for it.

The state rests. Run for Congress, D!

[zerojunkie]

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

An internet? bwhahahaha...Oh, I think i just sharted myself. Easy there, Ted-o don't hurt yer thinkin muscle.

[The Real Rick Springfield]

my 2 favorites...

"No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position."

and...

"(the internet) It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes."

john

[kalamu]

wtf is he talking about? netflix? he said he got an internet delivered to him by his staff? LOL

this is my favorite Vella

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.

he had the entire internet delivered to him at 10 am on a friday LOL