I loved it when they played this on the Daily Show. Every time they went to a clip they changed Ted Stevens picture to an old prospector and finally Grandpa Simpson.
Serious information: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499Originally Posted by Senator Ted Stevens
Less Serious Information: http://www.myspace.com/tedstevensfanclub
Public Knowledge, a nonprofit that has been fighting against the broadcast flag and for net neutrality, originally posted the recording of Stevens' odd, and technically inaccurate, explanation of why he was voting against net neutrality.
After a Wired News blog published a transcript of his remarks, they became a sensation over the long July 4 weekend, spawning hundreds of blog posts and comments at sites such as digg and Slashdot, and inspiring netizens to make T-shirts, PowerPoint presentations and songs lampooning the senator's assertion that the "internet isn't a truck ... it's a series of tubes."
The internet tube meme hit the big time when comedian Jon Stewart aired the audio on The Daily Show Wednesday night, complete with a helpful diagram illustrating how a tube-based internet might work. Here's that Daily Show link: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ind...try_id=1520334
Maybe this is already in a thread. It's funny, so that means it's automatically old and everyone has already seen it. But this thread is OFFICAL.
Oh, and here is a forensic analaysis of why the internet took 5 days to reach the senator:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ind...try_id=1513010
Last edited by Korly; 13 Jul 2006 at 07:42 PM.
I loved it when they played this on the Daily Show. Every time they went to a clip they changed Ted Stevens picture to an old prospector and finally Grandpa Simpson.
Holy shit, I can't believe he actually said that.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?
We already have a thread like this on the boards.
A) It's not going to work, the same people that are hogging all of his precious bandwidth while jacking off to photo's of Jessica Simpson are the people who will potentially be buying something from his online business. Smart businesses buy better servers to accomodate more people. So they're 8 billion times smarter, a better business in general and more importantly use the time that could be used writing pointless, poorly conceived letters over the internet to think up ways to make their business more competitive and less technologically braindead. Good job on the elitist bullshit, though. Your company really got that down top notch.
A2) The "commercial internet" will be dead. It will not be able to be viable as a sales tool because there will be no consumers on it. If they're talking about communicating in-company then they need an intranet anyway, they might as well use it.
The internet is like the roadways. It's free for people to use how they like (whether it be big trucks or small cars), but sometimes you have to wait. I guess patience and sharing isn't something this man's mommy taught him growing up.
The article was a piece of shit.Originally Posted by Tenchimo Dos
Last edited by Drewbacca; 13 Jul 2006 at 07:46 PM.
Originally Posted by rezo
lol, not that he needs people to discredit him any more than he already has done to himself, but the DoD has its own internet because thier shit is top secret.
I like how his "dump truck" analogy sounds like he's doing away with that analogy...as tho everyone is running around comparing the intertron to a dump truck:
"It's not like, I mean, y'know, a DUMP TRUCK, like you all make it out to be...it's a TUBE!"
Thanks for the clarification, old-timer.
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Ted Stevens is an Alaskan hero.
Damn right he is, nigga brings home the bacon.
Time for a change
I'm so running to be my state's Senator when I hit 50.
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