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[kar3ning]

Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) explains the internet for you:

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

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[edanya]

thats awesome. haha! happy belated bday, btw :oP

[yrcomplacency]

Boxer = matron saint of the stephanie miller show. <33 you listen to am talk radio at all?

[axo]

Stevens is getting a good thrashing on the snarkernet these days. Old dirty bastard--I have disliked him for years.

[burning_brain]

Stevens is frontrunner for legislative douchebag of the decade-- godfather of the "bridge to nowhere" pork project, and the man who said by invading Iraq Dubya was doing what "Clinton didn't have the guts to do."

[ipsin]

Oh, man, he's got my vote.

I love how not invading Iraq is somehow's Clinton's fault, even though the last guy to go into Iraq was Bush I, and the paper trail shows he decided to "wimp out" instead of overthrowing Saddam and owning Iraq because the estimated cost in lives was too high.

I think Bush I made the right decision on that point, but if destabilizing regions and killing people takes guts, he was the gutless wonder here, not Clinton.

[ipsin]

Warning: Boringness follows

The thing is, I really imagine he's thinking of pneumatic tubes here, which is an excellent image. I don't understand why he labors to come up with an abstract image when he has a concrete one. "The internet is the phone network" is just as good.

I didn't like that net neutrality page because it talks about net neutrality as some kind of "Declaration of Independence"-level decision that was made when Vinton Cerf and the rest of the founding fathers drew up the first peering agreements. I think that's deceptive. Peering, sure, but the technology and incentive to be devious didn't exist at the time, so equitable peering was an implicit assumption.

As I understand the current state of affairs, they don't even need a law to put an end to network neutrality, they can just do it.

The way they describe network neutrality, it was dead years ago. Quality of Service (QoS) flags and rules have existed for a while, and routers can already do priority routing based on traffic type. I think that's a good thing,

[ipsin]

I'm sorry, I should've just said "call your senator and tell them you support network neutrality" too, because any message more complicated than that leaves them open to the person who drives the biggest dump truck full of money up to their door.