Levity: the ’80s & Senator Stevens
In light of the heaviness of the immediately prior entries, why not check this out?
Apparently Disturbed has done a remake of “Land of Confusion” by Genesis (feat. Phil Collins, naturally). Seriously, Genesis was creative genius. Also creative genius? Journey. Their “Separate Ways” is pure gold. But—people—gentle readers!—what could they possibly have been thinking with the hair, the clothes, the ridiculously melodramatic gesticulations? There is just nothing quite like Steve Perry, arguably the greatest male vocalist in recent—or at least rock—history, bearing a mullet and a black and pink tank top while being more emo than any emo kid on MySpace ever dreamed. Whew. One of the greatest bands ever, because of their music, and clearly not because of their videos. For more excellence, wellness, and that which is ridiculous, check out the ’80s channels over at UmmYeah.
Also. Be amused; be very amused: Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) gave a remarkable explanation about how the Internet actually works: it’s like a series of tubes. Seriously. There’s full audio [MP3] available, and the transcript follows:
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.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let’s talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren’t using it for commercial purposes.
We aren’t earning anything by going on that internet. Now I’m not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people […]
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.
Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can’t afford getting delayed by other people.
[…]
Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.
Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it’s not using what consumers use every day.
It’s not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.
The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.
I’m not making this up (Wired, ZDNet, SF Chronicle).
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July 11th, 2006 at 21:40:06
[…] To find out where your senator stands, you can try this site. I’m curious, though, because when one clicks on (e.g.) South Carolina, it seems that while Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is listed as against net neutrality. But looking at his quote on the matter, it seems he is either misinformed about the nature of the bill (possible, especially in the light of Ted Stevens‘ [R-AK] ignorance), or is actually FOR net neutrality and either doesn’t realize it or is mislabeled on this site, or worst of all is not only ignorant of it, but is actually spouting rhetoric because his fellow senators told him to. […]
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