I take it you guys are familiar with the net neutrality bill and legislature that's been going around recently. Take a look at one senator's reason for going against:
[quote]There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.
But this service isn't going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal 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.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people.
The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
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?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.
Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.
Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.
It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.
The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.
Senator Ted Stevens, from [url=http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499]wired.com blog[/url]
I think he's trying to explain bandwidth and the amount that's used by commercial ventures that don't affect the average consumer. I think he's trying to say that a tax should be placed on those who make mony from the Internet on top of what they already pay on business earnings, because they're clogging up the Internet for the rest of us.
Feel free to lol.
Oh ***, I saw this yesterday. Clearly this guy has done his research.
[quote]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?
OK, HOW do you send an internet and get it da next day!!! :D:D:D That should be E-Mail for those of you in Rio Linda!!! :D:D:D
"I hear thar be free shipping on teh internetz"
Heh, I saw this on Fark. Took me two reads to understand just what he was trying to say.
Here's hoping someone persuades him to get his internet tubes tied so he stops filling all the world's internets with his enormous amounts of bogus material. The internet is not a reservoir for useless waste matter on a truck. Well, it is, but I wish it wasn't.
I wonder if he'd be upset that little stupid kids like me have been responsible for delaying his internets with my own stupid pointless annoying messages (internets) and that instead of driving them in a truck to people, I tried to flush them down the toilet.
I'm surprised at how little that actually made sense...
Most peopel on SA are honestly ****e dabout this and net neutrality.
I quote:
"It's funny how those who know nothing about the internet are determining its future."
What's SA?
Read the first half and stopped, I honestly cannot understand what the hell he's saying. Is English not his native language?
EDIT: Okay, he's talking about congestion caused by digital delivery. He is correct, we should use another network for music and video digital delivery. And one exists, it's run by cable companies. Cable with set-top boxes is much better suited for digital delivery than the internet is.
But this all has fuck all to do wirh net nutrality, the guy is a moron.
So this internet....you can send and recieve stuff on it?
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Just like a women's anatomy! It's a network of tubes through which you send your seed, and receive herpes! Amazing! =o
Someone please send me an internet. I really want an internet. Why can't I have an internet!? All teh other kids have an internets!:crying:
Because you touch yourself at night
That's your answer for everything.
This does not change the fact that it's true.
Man, you guys are still using the tube internets? I upgraded to the dump truck version.