Comments on: Tubes

By: Wesley Hetrick

Wesley Hetrick — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:32:41 +0000

Becuause the way he is describing it sounds like there is only 1 “tube” between any 2 points which we all know is not true.

By: abb1

abb1 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:30:07 +0000

What Cm said. Here we have an internal email system and an SMPT gateway. Sometimes the gateway is down or clogged and then the ‘internet sent to my staff’ can be delayed for hours – or days, perhaps – while the internal email system is working just fine.

By: Tom F

Tom F — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:55:47 +0000

I think he is still hung up on Saddam Hussein’s aluminum tubes.

By: blah

blah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:01:59 +0000

Seriously, how clueless do you have to be to say that somebody sent an internet? It’s probably not a mistake that even your average idiot would make.

By: blah

blah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:00:41 +0000

he accidentally says “an internet was sent by my staff” when he clearly means “an email.”

You don’t find that fucking hilarious? How often does that happen? I still haven’t stopped laughing.

By: jet

jet — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:34:54 +0000

Rea,
I had the same idea. “Tubes” is just a strange word to use, but if you are a clueless monkey it might come to mind when trying to remember the word “pipe”.

In Soviet Russia the internet tiers you!

By: J Edgar

J Edgar — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:22:34 +0000

Instead of ‘tube’ use ‘roll’ as in
‘the telecoms want to roll everyone else.’
No confusion there.

By: cm

cm — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:43:54 +0000

In the corporate world, email is held up by sender ad receiver side spam/virus scanning and the complexities of routing/processing between internal email systems.

By: rea

rea — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:07:03 +0000

What’s funny about Stevens and his “tubes” is that he clearly was given a careful briefing on anti-neutrality talking points, including the semi-term-of-art “pipes”—and that he proved incapable of reciting prepared talking points coherently.

By: mpowell

mpowell — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:17:19 +0000

#25- when you’re talking about technical issues that only a small percentage of the population can actually understand, its pretty much inevitable that the lobby with the most financial backing will win. Its not that the government doesn’t represent the political will of its citizens, its just that on an issue like this, there is no political will and so the lobbies win out. Its pretty hard to imagine a democratic government functioning any other way. Its exteremely frustrating- but do you have any solutions?

By: canis latrans

canis latrans — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:22:57 +0000

Well, at least he realized “the internet” is singular. Mebbe we should cut him some slack. Or would that be the soft bigotry of low expectations?

By: Govt Skeptic

Govt Skeptic — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:45:10 +0000

This sycophant doesn’t actually know anything except how to please his corporate masters so he can get reelected. He sounds just like the old guy who lived across the street and used to shake his rake at squirrels. Which was okay, because that crazy old codger wasn’t crafting life-changing legislation.

The sad part about all this is that the forces seeking a multi-tiered internet don’t seem to understand that they’d be starting the first internet-world-war—in which they would be massively outgunned. A virtual militia of geeks would instantly dream up a thousand ways to bypass the tiering system, and then there would be the inevitable stupid/misguided legislation to outlaw those methods, etc etc.

Every time these clowns in Congress try to pass pro-corporate legislation like this, it becomes clearer that the citizen is not represented in our federal legislative body any longer.

By: me2i81

me2i81 — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:06 +0000

But since 99% of the industry uses this excuse for not delivering email on time, why blame him?

Because he’s arging against net neutrality using email delivery time as an example.

By: Gorkle

Gorkle — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:12:16 +0000

Stevens has a lot of power, is rarely reticent in expressing disdain for those with whom he disagrees, and revels in supporting special interests of the moneyed kind.

Or: he displays a staggering ignorance over the very stuff he will help fashion legislation regulating.

By: Rasselas

Rasselas — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:01:26 +0000

He has impuned the honor of Lady Internet. I demand satisfaction.