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Re: Senator 'Tubes' (Ted Stevens) Seemingly Bribed to Fight Freedom

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:44:30 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:25:25 -0500, Rick wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:45:24 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:56:08 -0700 (PDT), nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 6, 11:39 am, Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Could someone explain to my just what is wrong with that Senator's
>>>>> "tubes" analogy?  As Ed Felten noted:
>>>>>
>>>>>    From the lowliest blogger to Jon Stewart, everybody is laughing
>>>>>    at Sen. Ted Stevens and his remarks on net neutrality. The sound
>>>>>    bite about the Internet being ³a series of tubes² has come in for
>>>>>    for the most ridicule.
>>>>>
>>>>>    I¹ll grant that Stevens sounds pretty confused on the recording.
>>>>>    But¹s let¹s give the guy a break. He was speaking off the cuff in
>>>>>    a meeting, and he sounds a bit agitated. Have you ever listened
>>>>>    to a recording of yourself speaking in an unscripted setting? For
>>>>>    most people, it¹s pretty depressing. We misspeak, drop words,
>>>>>    repeat phrases, and mangle sentences all the time. Normally,
>>>>>    listeners¹ brains edit out the errors.
>>>>>
>>>>>    In this light, some of the ridicule of Stevens seems a bit
>>>>>    unfair. He said the Internet is made up of ³tubes². Taken
>>>>>    literally, that¹s crazy. But experts talk about ³pipes² all the
>>>>>    time. Is the gap between ³tubes² and ³pipes² really so large? And
>>>>>    when Stevens says that his staff sent him ³an Internet² and it
>>>>>    took several days to arrive, it sounds to me like he meant to say
>>>>>    ³an email² and just misspoke.
>>>>>
>>>>> Excerpted from <http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1042>.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> --Tim Smith
>>>> 
>>>> There's nothing wrong with the tubes analogy.
>>>> 
>>>> Let's talk about real problems, like corruption of the Senate by big
>>>> money.
>>> 
>>> I agree with that!
>>> 
>>> As for the tubes statement, maybe he should have consulted with Al
>>> Gore "The father of the Internet" before making a comment like that!
>> 
>> Maybe you should read what Gore actually said, and have someone explain
>> to you what was meant. Maybe not. You seem to enjoy looking stupid.
>> 
>> ... and Rick Blaine never said "play it again, Sam".
> 
> I know that.
> He said "play it"...
> PT Barnum never said "there's a sucker born every minute" either
> although the Linux community proves the statement on a daily basis.


Maybe you should do the same research on Gore's statement.


-- 
Rick

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