Somehow I managed to miss his comments on the 'net. Isn't it cool that a man completely unqualified, and very likely a psycho, gets to regulate something he knows very little about?
In case you missed it, here's a quick quote from a recent explanation he gave on how the 'net works taken from [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0715-06.htm|a July 15, 2006 article] from [http://www.realcities.com/|McClatchy Newspapers] which shows us just how much of a fool this guy is:
"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 man sounds like a 13-year-old kid trying to sound like he knows something about a thing he is clueless about. What's even more sad is in that article I linked to, the author tries to play off Stevens' reference to the Internet as a bunch of "tubes" as minor. The article explains that Stevens probably meant "pipes" which "is common slang in the telecom industry, especially when discussing the Internet carrying capacity of phone lines or cable."
Ahh, not exactly. The term "pipe" is used metaphorically by the uber-in-crowd of the 'net. The guys who run websites don't usually use the term, but the guys who actually maintain the computers/servers/etc. that websites are on would. See what I mean about Stevens coming across like a 13-year-old? He over heard some techies using the big Internet-words and thought he'd have a stab at it.
However, we all know [http://thepete.com/senate-does-its-job-and-before-vacation/|Ted Stevens is a madman]. This is why it's GREAT that he's something like third or fourth in line to be president. Sorry, I'd do the research but I'm just too scared to find out how close this freak is to running things...
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