The Internet for Dummies...

If you didn't know, there's a Net Neutrality Bill being hawked in Congress which would prohibit internet providers from prioritizing some internet traffic over others. If you think that that would include reasoned debate, behold Senator/Resident Loon Ted Stevens:

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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.

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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.

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.

Priceless. Words of wisdom from someone who normally would be ranting about Truman on the back of the city bus.