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Dorothy Wood
07-12-2006, 10:28 PM
I haven't laughed so hard at a thing ever.

Alaska’s Senator Ted Stevens has some pretty interesting ideas about the 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.

There’s tubes, too:

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?

http://tailrank.com/posts/562949953704012/The_Internet_-_It's_made_of_tubes__you_know!

TurdBerglar
07-12-2006, 10:34 PM
those tubes are bandwidth

Documad
07-12-2006, 10:35 PM
Jon Stewart had fun with that tonight. :p

It would be funnier if there wasn't so much at stake right now re the future of the internet. :o

jabumbo
07-12-2006, 10:43 PM
alaska is a disconnected universe

Dorothy Wood
07-13-2006, 11:45 AM
didn't any of you other crab cakes watch the daily show last night?

ms.peachy
07-13-2006, 01:58 PM
didn't any of you other crab cakes watch the daily show last night?
I'm watching that right now LOL (cuz, you know, it's England here and stuff).

Funnnnny!

I've also just learned that with the internet, you can gamble in the bathroom.

Miho Mingu
07-13-2006, 02:16 PM
Don't forget YTMNDs, and all those other comedy video sites. These links get especially circulated on IRC /all the time/.

QueenAdrock
07-13-2006, 02:19 PM
It makes me :( when porn gets caught and clogged in the tubes.

Bob
07-13-2006, 02:40 PM
i work in the sorting department at internet co. every time someone does a seach, a little message comes in through the vacuum tube, then i have to check and see where it goes and put it in the right tube going outbound. sometimes they do get clogged, ted stevens is right. it's a hard job, give me a break