05 July, 2006

The Internet Is Made of Tubes

Ted Stevens is the Senator from Alaka who threatened to resign from the Senate if $453 million wasn't used to build a couple bridges in his state that would connect Bumblefuck to Nowhere. And recently he explained how the Internet works:

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.


It's so reassuring that people who get to make laws about the Net seem to have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Funny - when I heard this I thought the same thing, and then thought about all the laws made by old men that affect me and my uterus...

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