[Cialug] How the Internet works

[Claus]

It's not about whether or not the amendment is reasonable.  Its about 
the attitude of the posts.  Knee jerk reactions like that only cause 
more harm.  Here is a senator that needs the expertise from people like 
you, yet you call him an idiot.  This doesn't foster any communications, 
instead positions the senator more solid with the telecom lobbyists.

The mistakes he made during the speech are quite common throughout the 
normal population.  There is always the notion that someone has to have 
invented the Internet, that one is using the Internet, that one can buy 
it and that it's free.  The Internet is a bunch of different things to 
different people and there isn't one exact definition, not even within 
the IT world.  But it really doesn't matter.  We all know that the 
Internet he got was an email message.  What matters is that he like 
millions of other people want to get their email to arrive reliably and 
fast.  While the opponents promise that they will, we tell him he's an 
idiot.  Good job!

   Claus

On 7/3/2006 1:20 PM, Dave Weis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Claus wrote:
>> First of all you have to remember that Senators have to deal with all 
>> kinds of issues, not just IT.  So it's very difficult for them to be 
>> an expert on everything.  If you listen to the audio you'd know that 
>> right away.
> 
> If it's part of your job to make decisions that affect 250+ million 
> people directly, plus a few billion more around the world indirectly, 
> you should understand the basic principles of how it works. He's also 
> not a first year peon, he chairs the Committee on Commerce, Science and 
> Transportation. That sounds like someone that should have an inklink of 
> how things work.
> 
>> While he did get some things incorrect, he also had several things 
>> correct. While he wasn't the smoothest speaker, he voiced a valid 
>> concern.  It is hard for us to overhear the little mistakes like 
>> "sending the Internet" and such and focus on the real concern.
>>
>> All what I hear is bashing by us but nobody stepped up and tried to 
>> clarify things and argue for or against it with solid and easy to 
>> understand reasons. In a democracy it is our duty as citizens to stay 
>> informed in politics and elect and vote intelligently when called 
>> upon.  As technological experts it's our duty to advice our political 
>> representatives.  For this list it would be fully appropriate, with 
>> the proper subject line, to discuss the amendment intension while 
>> bashing people shouldn't be.
> 
> The amendment was completely reasonable and had a good reason to be 
> there, see next paragraph.
> 
>> The part that makes me sick are the people that make just make fun of 
>> them but don't contribute anything useful.  Such behavior is extremely 
>> low and just plain destructive.  Who wants to serve in a public office 
>> or voice their opinions just so others make fun of you?
> 
> There are plenty of astroturf groups making noise about the issue. I saw 
> in person a petition paid for by the telephone companies getting people 
> excited about protecting the internet from regulation. The regulations 
> being that carriers can not intentionally degrade traffic over their 
> network that goes to a competitor. It didn't prevent carriers from 
> giving themselves priority, just preventing them from affecting 
> competitors. The request for the law has come up because some carriers 
> are intentionally harming traffic like Vonage when it eats into their 
> wireline revenue.
> 
> dave
> 
>> On 7/3/2006 7:11 AM, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>>> Sometimes you want to laugh when you realize that these politicians just
>>> don't get it. Then you realize that they are our leaders, and it just
>>> makes you sick.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 06:50, Dave Weis wrote:
>>>> I guess I was wrong on how I thought things worked:
>>>> http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499
>>
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