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Defenders of Ted ‘Series of Tubes’ Stevens: He’s Really Tech-SavvyPosted on Jul 14, 2006
Sen. Ted Stevens’ near-incoherent speech before Congress last week about Internet fundamentals (“It’s a series of tubes”) quickly made him a national laughingstock. But his defenders say Stevens simply used imprecise language, and that he really knows his Net stuff. You decide:
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By Liz, July 16, 2006 at 5:23 pm #
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so the likes of dumb paris hilton, and britney spears are blackberry junkies. So does that make them technological wizards? No. So what does being a blackberry junkie prove your technical knowledge? Nothing.
Report thisBy Andrew Myers, July 16, 2006 at 3:36 pm #
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It’s not the tubes statement that made his ignorance of the subject so obvious. It’s not even the fact that he refered to “an email” as “an internet”...
The protocols used to relay email and to allow IP transmissions make it IMPOSSIBLE for his analogy, using whatever terminology you favor, to ever take place.
I think it is hilarious to say that he AUTHORED the bill. Having read it’s text I have concluded there is no way he could have written half of it!
This guy is a crazy old man. Is it true that he is 3rd in line for the presidency!?!?
Report thisBy Joe, July 16, 2006 at 9:54 am #
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Poor senile old fool! He must have been thinking about his bridge to nowhere which is really a long tube, similar to the Internet.
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