>From the Bonehead Of The Day mailing list:
Internet For Dummies What does it take to become the prestigious chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee of the US Senate? Well, technically, not much. US Senator Ted Stevens (Alaska) speaking from personal experience (along with his amazing explanation of how the Internet works), on why the Internet is so slow and why his staff's Internet response time is measured, not in seconds, like it is for you and me, but for them in days (beginning with what happened that fateful day he tried downloading the internet [sic]): "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 ... 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." So there you have it, from the horses mouth (which end is up?), from the person looking out for you and me, everything you download gets stuffed into a tube somewhere, behind someone else's internet, waiting for its turn to be downloaded. So, now you know that When you download music, a news video, read this story, or update your virus scanner information, or whatever, you are shamelessly tying up one of the Internet tubes for a long time and so someone like Stevens will not get his internet downloaded until your internet download finishes, maybe days later. If you want to become totally depressed listen to Steven's total flow of unrelated, detached and unconnected statements, peppered with misused phrases that he heard somewhere, like "streaming," during his speech before our wise members of Congress: http://media.publicknowledge.org/stevens-on-nn.mp3 But please be aware that while you listen to his speech, someone's internet is waiting for you to finish listening. You can be so selfish sometimes. ****************************************** xponent Simply Brilliant Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
