The Internets have been ridculing a Senator Ted Stevens for his reasons for opposing Network Neutrality, and in his statements, he described how the Internet worked.

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.

Personally, that isn’t that funny, but what he said before was proof that he didn’t know what he was doing.

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 is now 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.

What does he expect, that an entire Internet would take five minutes to get to him?

This is as gold as Bush’s “Internets”.

Please, for the love of God, when something breaks and you don’t know how to fix it, don’t pretend you know what you’re doing. You may have “fixed” it for now, but it’s inevitable that it’ll break again. Instead, go for the phone and call someone who does know what they’re doing.

Our phone line is messed up and the first thing I said was “call Bell.” Of course, my dad didn’t listen to me, and attempted to fix the problem. So I went on the Internet and found out you can test the line through the demarcation point. We find that we don’t have one. But, my dad has the brilliant idea of cleaning it. That solves the problem. For a few hours.

So this goes on and off again for the next couple of days until cleaning it didn’t work anymore. So now, we have to wait until Friday to get the phone line uncrapped. So now, we get to live with crappy a phone line for twice the time it should’ve taken to get it fixed properly.

The moral of the story is that if you’re not a Bell technician, don’t fuck around with phone lines. And we can replace Bell technician with the appropriate professional (hence why they’re called professionals) and phone lines with the trade of said professional. And especially phone lines. We’re screwed if we had to call 911, wouldn’t we?

The Internet and Canadian Healthcare both have something in common. Discussions are happening over whether the tiering of the system will improve the services they provide. Many Canadians are staunchly against the privatization of healthcare and are quite proud of the service that we get. Likewise, many people on the Internet are opposed to the tiering of the Internet, proposed by some American telecoms, and are quite proud of the open nature of the Internet. As you can see, there are some very interesting parallels. (more…)

Threadless is one of the greatest ideas to hit the Internets. Basically, people submit shirt designs, everyone votes on them, and the most popular ones get printed and sold. Usually, Internet shirts are really expensive, especially since they’re in US DollarsWhich, apparently, is $3700 Canadian. And let’s not start on Shipping and Handling.. However, Threadless has an annual Holiday sale, which brings the shirts down to prices that the masses can afford. Each shirt is going for $10 now and they’ve brought out a huge selection of new and reprinted classics. Just in case anyone happens to be wondering what to get me this Christmas, I will mention that the kawaiiness of Pillow Fight makes me smile.