{"id":228,"date":"2008-08-03T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-08-05T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:18:50","slug":"the-internet-is-not-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-internet-is-not-a-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet is not a truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know we&#8217;ve all heard the audio clip from our dearly indicted Senator Ted Stevens where he refers to the Internet as a series of tubes.\u00a0 But until today I hadn&#8217;t heard the entire clip.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f99PcP0aFNE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I have absolutely no idea what point he&#8217;s trying to argue &#8212; his thesis is totally lost in all of his elderly technophobic blubbering.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s some anti-spam Senate bill?\u00a0 Dunno.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s similar to what I imagine would happen if I sat my grandparents down and said to them &#8216;explain to me how you think the internet works and what you think you can do with it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This is who runs the federal government. A bunch of rich white guys who are too busy having their decks rebuilt by oil companies to take time to figure out how the internet works.<\/p>\n<p>Good to know that, in the true spirit of America, it&#8217;s much more important to have a strong opinion when it comes to technology rahther than have any facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know we&#8217;ve all heard the audio clip from our dearly indicted Senator Ted Stevens where he refers to the Internet as a series of tubes.\u00a0 But until today I hadn&#8217;t heard the entire clip. Wow. First of all, I have absolutely no idea what point he&#8217;s trying to argue &#8212; his thesis is totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[117,118,116],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-rants-and-raves","tag-internet","tag-series-of-tubes","tag-ted-stevens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}