This guy certainly have some laughable sound bites, but is his
understanding of the issues really THAT bad? I know it's funny for him
to say that "the internet" took days to get to him, or that it's a
bunch of tubes, however... the fact is that widespread VOIP and
streaming video _does_ threaten to slow down everyone's internet
experience by using enormous amounts of bandwidth.
He'd sound a lot better if he used the words "bandwidth" and "email and
didn't have a lame personal example, but then again the vast number of
people out there simply believe that bandwidth is some sort of
unlimited resource.
I enjoy a good laugh at clueless politicians, and this guy certainly
set himself up, but his conclusions probably didn't come from his lost
e-mail. More likely someone actually explained the issues to him and he
just stinks at speaking about it.
Beats the heck out of a smooth talking politician screwing the little
guy - at least he's looking out for the consumer in all of this.
Boy I have no reservations. If this idiot actually tries to pass laws
about something for me, at least he should do some research, and not
base his ideas on his own lame experience.
Internet stuff is not rocket science to understand - and these guys
are also behind the funding ALL technical spending by the government.
They had better get up to speed or stand aside for the new generation
of politicians who really do understand.
sqb
You should probably take his age into account. My dad is younger than
Ted
Stevens and he knows even less about the internet. I recently set up
an old
Windows 98 computer for him to play his casino games. All he knows is
casino
games and MSN hotmail - and if the Internet Explorer homepage shows
anything
besides MSN, he gets in a fit!
So I hesitate to make fun of this guy.
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stephen barncard
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