Does anyone have any idea what he might actually be saying when he proclaims that the internet is not a truck, but tubes? What the fuck does that mean? Was he drunk? Perhaps he thinks that computers still fill entire rooms and run on electron tubes? Maybe he is analogizing on the relative "fertility" of the internet? Maybe he was on an acid trip? Anyone know what he's implying, the basis of the metaphor? Anyone?
Given the context of his whole speech, i believe he was talking about bandwidth and his concern that too much streaming data will "clog the tubes". Although he clearly has no idea how the internet functions.
Well, I have been noticing a dense fog looming over my building lately, perhaps it is due to the overabundance of data being sent through the air. It's pretty thick, and I betcha most of it is spam, at least from the smell of it.
He was trying to make an analogy for other people of his age that dont know how an internet works. A big truck could essentially haul any amount of (bandwidth) but thats not what the internet is, "it's a series of tubes that can be filled up" ... so he's talking about bandwidth and how traffick would slow down the transfer rates of the internet.
But.......he wasn't talking to other people his age, and a "big truck", well a truck can't hold an infinite amount of junk either. I think he's just reaching a bit, and trying desperately to sound like he knows what he's talking about. Like when grandpa tries to convince you he's "hip". The fact is, current ISPs are nowhere near their max capacity, and couldn't be for a long time unless a whole new continent suddenly started using the internet, and everyone was on it all the time.
Even with the overabundance of spam, a fast computer will download a 50 minute album in 30 seconds from 3 or 4 sources, so I don't think the tubes are getting clogged just yet. Oh, and the fog looming over my house.......not spam, just chemtrails.
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.
it missed my first post, going before these two: "There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service."..."But this service isn't 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?"
so he's clearly talking about bandwidth, but i don't know anything about networks... he's saying netflix and youtube type "commercial things" slow down your "personal internet' ...
that's not true right? .. and he' saying that he got his email late because (in other words) the overall average traffic on the internet went up...
it's all based on your isp, right? it doesn't depend on youtube or netflix, those things can burn and your internet wouldn't get faster...
You know, if it actually took him overnight to get an email, it's probably because his grandkids were on the phone!!!! He should look into some of the newfangled contraptions that they have now that don't require tying up the phone line! Anyway, I knew he was making a half-assed analogy about bandwidth and it's limits (which we haven't yet reached) but I was just making fun of the analogy itself. I doubt he knows what he's talking about, he probably was parroting something he heard somewhere.
You said "I knew he was making a half-assed analogy about bandwidth and it's limits" yet your first post, if we scroll up, says the following:
"Does anyone have any idea what he might actually be saying when he proclaims that the internet is not a truck, but tubes? What the fuck does that mean? Was he drunk?"
So you've just absorbed the answer I gave you as your own knowledge, claiming to "already know" the answer lol...
If he is suggesting that they limit advertisements and spam, great. However, when a politician wants to do away with something like youtube, it's because he or she has a reason to want to limit the free exchange of information between common people, and that can't mean anything good. Youtube is set up so that most of the memory used to play videos is through your own flash player, and it really doesn't "clog the tubes" any more than weather-dot-com or fox news online.
LMAO ok here I was making fun of your ego absorbing knowledge when I realized, I was not even the first person to say bandwidth. Kungfuguru was. So I essentially did the exact same thing... hahaha.
I was just about to say that kungfuguru was the one who pointed it out, immediately after my 1st comment, but I never tried to "claim the knowledge as my own". It sounds likely to me that he was in fact making that analogy, but we are all just guessing here. Anyway, generally an overinflated ego would prevent me from absorbing knowledge, wouldn't it? I mean, no ones BORN with knowledge, it has to come from somewhere. I'd prefer it from a u-tuber with no reason to lie, instead of media who does.
I think that these days, the net is really a series of transistors, ICs, op-amps, and clipping diodes. Tubes are just too big, too high maintenance, and run too hot. It's all solid state now, smaller, cheaper, easier....but........at what cost???? Oh the nostalgia, the good old days, tubes, ahhhhh, now that is warm and organic. Magnificent.
tubes (more accurately pipes) is a common metaphor for the way a network works in general, and it more or less relates to bandwidth. It's actually quite a good metaphor, but what do i know? i'm just a CS major
I am quite happy for you, your future is bright with defense contractors. But what do I know? I am just the son of an unemployed man with a moral code of ethics and an MSCS. Every now and then he gets a gig designing some car dealership's website. He hates this day to day living, hates being broke, but in his words "it beats working for the war machine". Right now someone at Raytheon is keeping your seat warm for you.
yeah, you're right, nowadays its like 60% porn, 37% nerds that need to get out their parent's basement, 2.99% bullshit misleading and incorrect information and .01% useful information.
nah their wrong. you guys dont go to 4chan or any of the other chans, the internet is highly inhabited by trolls etc. not gonna go into further details.
Yes, but he thought that the internet was ACTUALLY made out of tubes, and those tubes were getting physically clogged. At least that's my understanding of it.
Technically, he wasn't that far off. Fiber optic cables are used to transmit data over the internet, and Fiber Optic cables are hollow tubes filled with light. So you see, he almost got it right. :P
Its true. We each have our own tube (i.p. address is internet pipe address). I'm thinking of narrowing my pipe; as my data pressure is only about 20 psi. I can tell you, if you're trying to transport a tens of million pounds of data, its just not good enough. See, my pipe overloaded. So now, everytime the phone rings the shower comes on. Every plumber so far has just put holes in my walls and ruined the carpet. But I'm confident my next plumber has the answer. His tubes are copper.
Ted Stevens is for net neutrality, not for more regulation dude. Find out the facts on the issues, and dont pay attention to his dumb filibuster comments.
i called one he came up check the pc out and he said after veiwing some of the most disturbing porn in the internet... he actually said there is nothing he can do but... after that i even had to tip him.... u know what i tip him with??? ahh u guessed...
little do you know, ted stevens DOES know the hell out of what he is talking about. have any of you ever looked at the internets? no, not you modem, not some cables, the internets. AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, it is tubes. and ted steven predicted and formed the concept of the internet at least a hundred years ago. HE KNOWS.
this is why we need to get all the old people out of office beef the shit out of homeland security make it so hard to get in the country you have to pass 10 tests be for you can step foot in a prison
old people dont know SHIT! SHUT THE FUCK UP TED
BBoyHawaii142 10 months ago 2
HES RIGHT haven't you been to meatspin
GrimTheToad 1 year ago 3
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This just in....Dead Ted spotted in Hell sucking off Reagan and giving Tony Snow a reach around.
Thomas123169 1 year ago
ted actually died friday but it urr durr got urr duurr the info got caught in in in a in a series of urr durr of tubes..
jrocjams 1 year ago
@jrocjams Shut. The. Fuck. UP.
ManOfDamnation 1 year ago
I, just the other day, got Alaskan mountains was sent to my plane at nine o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it today!
Aletifer 1 year ago
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@Aletifer
So if you wanna talk about the consumers, talk about you and me!
MyDoominateR 1 year ago
hooray!!!! terd stevens is dead. hooray!!!!
CornFedArmen 1 year ago 2
@CornFedArmen you are fucked up in the head to cheer a man's death
zikten 8 months ago
@zikten
I don't think it's weird that some people cheer the death of another.
It's like when they shot Osama in the face, people we're partying.
Granted, this guy is probably not even close to Osama, but there is always someone that is going to celebrate the death of a known person.
0neDoomedSpaceMarine 5 months ago
He would have been a perfect Chicago or New Orleans politician
Useyno 1 year ago
Ted is dead....and Alaska is a better place ...fuck this corrupt scum bag to hell
44774477ric 1 year ago
Youtube is just one series of tubes of the internet then.
XionXXXX 1 year ago
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lol he died in a violent manner.
underlinedbluetext 1 year ago
its a series of TUBES!
doogrisa 1 year ago
I NEEDZ MOAR TUBES!!!!
Shadowsol826 1 year ago
I ARE FILLIN UP ALL UR TUBES!
metalisbetter1o00 1 year ago
Come on, if it isn't a series of tubes, what is it?
Aldris247 1 year ago
Im Bout to hit up them porn tubes maybe some counter strike tubes later
stevevaizorz 1 year ago
Your Moms a series of tubes.
Trust me.
Rave7557 1 year ago
@Rave7557 your mother is a series of fallopian tubes. BUUUUUURN
GerbaIity 1 year ago
@GerbaIity
Gah! and Iv got no comeback :/
and yes, thats what she said.
Rave7557 1 year ago
He's talking about the YouTube and the TinyTube for the phone, and the porno Tube its called RedTube... he's right folks.
max8987 2 years ago 2
Does anyone have any idea what he might actually be saying when he proclaims that the internet is not a truck, but tubes? What the fuck does that mean? Was he drunk? Perhaps he thinks that computers still fill entire rooms and run on electron tubes? Maybe he is analogizing on the relative "fertility" of the internet? Maybe he was on an acid trip? Anyone know what he's implying, the basis of the metaphor? Anyone?
punkeratheart 2 years ago
Given the context of his whole speech, i believe he was talking about bandwidth and his concern that too much streaming data will "clog the tubes". Although he clearly has no idea how the internet functions.
kungfuguru 2 years ago
Well, I have been noticing a dense fog looming over my building lately, perhaps it is due to the overabundance of data being sent through the air. It's pretty thick, and I betcha most of it is spam, at least from the smell of it.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
He was trying to make an analogy for other people of his age that dont know how an internet works. A big truck could essentially haul any amount of (bandwidth) but thats not what the internet is, "it's a series of tubes that can be filled up" ... so he's talking about bandwidth and how traffick would slow down the transfer rates of the internet.
he may know what he's talking about ...
max8987 2 years ago
But.......he wasn't talking to other people his age, and a "big truck", well a truck can't hold an infinite amount of junk either. I think he's just reaching a bit, and trying desperately to sound like he knows what he's talking about. Like when grandpa tries to convince you he's "hip". The fact is, current ISPs are nowhere near their max capacity, and couldn't be for a long time unless a whole new continent suddenly started using the internet, and everyone was on it all the time.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
Even with the overabundance of spam, a fast computer will download a 50 minute album in 30 seconds from 3 or 4 sources, so I don't think the tubes are getting clogged just yet. Oh, and the fog looming over my house.......not spam, just chemtrails.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
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.
max8987 2 years ago
Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.
max8987 2 years ago
it missed my first post, going before these two: "There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service."..."But this service isn't 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?"
max8987 2 years ago
..."
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."
max8987 2 years ago
so he's clearly talking about bandwidth, but i don't know anything about networks... he's saying netflix and youtube type "commercial things" slow down your "personal internet' ...
that's not true right? .. and he' saying that he got his email late because (in other words) the overall average traffic on the internet went up...
it's all based on your isp, right? it doesn't depend on youtube or netflix, those things can burn and your internet wouldn't get faster...
max8987 2 years ago
he doesn't know what he's talking about.
max8987 2 years ago
You know, if it actually took him overnight to get an email, it's probably because his grandkids were on the phone!!!! He should look into some of the newfangled contraptions that they have now that don't require tying up the phone line! Anyway, I knew he was making a half-assed analogy about bandwidth and it's limits (which we haven't yet reached) but I was just making fun of the analogy itself. I doubt he knows what he's talking about, he probably was parroting something he heard somewhere.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
You said "I knew he was making a half-assed analogy about bandwidth and it's limits" yet your first post, if we scroll up, says the following:
"Does anyone have any idea what he might actually be saying when he proclaims that the internet is not a truck, but tubes? What the fuck does that mean? Was he drunk?"
So you've just absorbed the answer I gave you as your own knowledge, claiming to "already know" the answer lol...
max8987 2 years ago
If he is suggesting that they limit advertisements and spam, great. However, when a politician wants to do away with something like youtube, it's because he or she has a reason to want to limit the free exchange of information between common people, and that can't mean anything good. Youtube is set up so that most of the memory used to play videos is through your own flash player, and it really doesn't "clog the tubes" any more than weather-dot-com or fox news online.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
LMAO ok here I was making fun of your ego absorbing knowledge when I realized, I was not even the first person to say bandwidth. Kungfuguru was. So I essentially did the exact same thing... hahaha.
max8987 2 years ago
I was just about to say that kungfuguru was the one who pointed it out, immediately after my 1st comment, but I never tried to "claim the knowledge as my own". It sounds likely to me that he was in fact making that analogy, but we are all just guessing here. Anyway, generally an overinflated ego would prevent me from absorbing knowledge, wouldn't it? I mean, no ones BORN with knowledge, it has to come from somewhere. I'd prefer it from a u-tuber with no reason to lie, instead of media who does.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
I think that these days, the net is really a series of transistors, ICs, op-amps, and clipping diodes. Tubes are just too big, too high maintenance, and run too hot. It's all solid state now, smaller, cheaper, easier....but........at what cost???? Oh the nostalgia, the good old days, tubes, ahhhhh, now that is warm and organic. Magnificent.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
Gran Torino: "Get off my lawn!!"
max8987 2 years ago
tubes (more accurately pipes) is a common metaphor for the way a network works in general, and it more or less relates to bandwidth. It's actually quite a good metaphor, but what do i know? i'm just a CS major
KarateKidX 2 years ago
I am quite happy for you, your future is bright with defense contractors. But what do I know? I am just the son of an unemployed man with a moral code of ethics and an MSCS. Every now and then he gets a gig designing some car dealership's website. He hates this day to day living, hates being broke, but in his words "it beats working for the war machine". Right now someone at Raytheon is keeping your seat warm for you.
punkeratheart 2 years ago
All your tubes are belong to us.
rocknrollmonstar 2 years ago 3
is this guy constipated?
JustJealouse514 2 years ago
Don't worry, we're from the INTERNET and we're here to help.
FuckYouLetMeLogIn 2 years ago
Tube's Closed
AllAboardTheFailBoat 2 years ago 2
its...its...a series of TUBES!
smsteve888 2 years ago 3
lol
egniman 2 years ago
LOL we could really use a law that mandates republicans stay away from science
DeusExMachina7709 2 years ago
They do anyway.
maslab 2 years ago
1. create internet
2. fill with p0rn, memes and anime
3.???
4.Profit
greg0050 2 years ago 40
That sounds like the business plan of the Underwear Gnomes.
katey1dog 2 years ago
99.999999%= TUBES .00000001% = all that other stuff noone cares about
musicianguru12 2 years ago 3
He should've said the internet is a series of boobs, because there's no denying 95% of the internet is porn.
neogeon 2 years ago 14
you have not lived. gtfo off intornetz man. 70% of the internet is games to be honest.
xxhermitxx 2 years ago
yeah, you're right, nowadays its like 60% porn, 37% nerds that need to get out their parent's basement, 2.99% bullshit misleading and incorrect information and .01% useful information.
neogeon 2 years ago 2
You forgot the percentage of tubes.
vixaroth 2 years ago
roflmao you are sandvich compadable heavy weapons guy would be proud
JakemakesYTP 2 years ago
No, 94% of the Internet is Porn, Studies by the LAMBA Internet Studies. 4% is Entertainment and 2% is other.
101194z4life 2 years ago
nah their wrong. you guys dont go to 4chan or any of the other chans, the internet is highly inhabited by trolls etc. not gonna go into further details.
xxhermitxx 2 years ago
It's a series of TUBES
vegeta353658 2 years ago
Yes, but he thought that the internet was ACTUALLY made out of tubes, and those tubes were getting physically clogged. At least that's my understanding of it.
darthrebelpenguin 2 years ago
No he didn't think the internet is physically tubes. Its a metaphor to describe how it works. A terrible one, and that's why its so funny.
1337faqsguy 2 years ago 3
internetS*
bloodsuckern 2 years ago
The google runs on the internets, which is TUBES.
captain150 2 years ago
He is actually right but described it in the wrong way, its more like bridges between computers to share info, so he isn't that wrong.
Jagslacrosse19 2 years ago
Technically, he wasn't that far off. Fiber optic cables are used to transmit data over the internet, and Fiber Optic cables are hollow tubes filled with light. So you see, he almost got it right. :P
SandsOfTime3 2 years ago
ACTUALLY, fiber optic tubes are solid glass...
pianofreq 2 years ago 3
Holyfield got it from Tyson =X
aclose78 2 years ago
so if my internet is slow i pore Drano down it?
stinagen 2 years ago 5
watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs
wellthenscrewna 2 years ago
ze internez,iz a seriez of tubez
fdnfdjnedb 2 years ago
analogy
DoctorFist 3 years ago
this guy is so intelligent, he can explain to us newbies what the internet is. XXXDDD
ITS a series of TUBES!
70ME3E 3 years ago 2
Cut off at the end, says it's a series of tube
Canukles 3 years ago
Tube's Closed.
AllAboardTheFailBoat 3 years ago 31
Due to aids.
FrogBlastTheVentCore 3 years ago 5
Due to Mike Tyson
phazbla 2 years ago 2
Due to Mike Tyson's aids.
aclose78 2 years ago
Due to Hollyfield :O
phazbla 2 years ago
What A TWAT
JonWithams 3 years ago
Lmao
i guess he wont get into the tubes and discover what a huge dambass he is
ImGodUFUCK 3 years ago
Daaang, I love that. Does anyone have that whole conversation of him? Anyone? I want to see what he says before and after that lol!
Otterbane 3 years ago
All the comments are freaking hilarious........MY TUBES !!!!!!! have no pressure
2Hot2Fly2Much 3 years ago
Its true. We each have our own tube (i.p. address is internet pipe address). I'm thinking of narrowing my pipe; as my data pressure is only about 20 psi. I can tell you, if you're trying to transport a tens of million pounds of data, its just not good enough. See, my pipe overloaded. So now, everytime the phone rings the shower comes on. Every plumber so far has just put holes in my walls and ruined the carpet. But I'm confident my next plumber has the answer. His tubes are copper.
TwiddelyMan 3 years ago 5
Stop using logic TwiddelyMan!
Otterbane 3 years ago
oops. it happens. okayy. lets try again:
An internet is what you find in the middle of a bad apple. Of course it needs a tube; it has to eat.
TwiddelyMan 3 years ago
holy crap twiddely lol how did u come up with something so random? that was freakin hilarious
leechy9 3 years ago
The internet is a series of big trucks tha...that carry moar tubes and those tubes can be filled but there not a big truck.
shaunrocks12 3 years ago
The internet isn't a bunch of tubes. It a bunch of pipes!
What a dumbass...
KnucklesTwin 3 years ago 2
Haven't you ever played mario?....
soulshroud2 3 years ago
Uhh... Yeah... It's sarcasm.
KnucklesTwin 3 years ago
my internet tubes is clogged
obliviousdreamer 3 years ago 5
LOL XDDD :)
kissjuni 3 years ago
Woah, this guy know what he's talking about.
I checked my modem and even my ethernet cable, its not a big dump truck. :|
easeone2 3 years ago 6
Remember folks, this is the guy who regulates the internet.
Socialist1 3 years ago
Actually the bill he was proposing did make sense but the way that he phrased everything killed it and ended up making him look like an idiot.
PlatypusofCalifornia 3 years ago
If he wants to regulate the internet.. thats okey.. but it better be in his own fucking state, and not in the rest of the world!
... what a fucking bastard.. I curse Ted Stevens to; forwever step in rusty nails.
Maximusbrain 3 years ago
Ted Stevens is for net neutrality, not for more regulation dude. Find out the facts on the issues, and dont pay attention to his dumb filibuster comments.
thecoolerstinger 3 years ago
I thought I had a virus, but this explains everything now!
...Better go call a plumber.
ninjamousie 4 years ago 5
your damm right...
but ill warn u
i called one he came up check the pc out and he said after veiwing some of the most disturbing porn in the internet... he actually said there is nothing he can do but... after that i even had to tip him.... u know what i tip him with??? ahh u guessed...
(the answer was bleep indefinitly)
lol
UNiqEz 4 years ago
reeeaaaly?? (o 0) -
DEMONDAY 4 years ago
little do you know, ted stevens DOES know the hell out of what he is talking about. have any of you ever looked at the internets? no, not you modem, not some cables, the internets. AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, it is tubes. and ted steven predicted and formed the concept of the internet at least a hundred years ago. HE KNOWS.
it's tubes, yeah?
definitely NOT a big truck.
AlmightyDeided 4 years ago 10
calm the fuck down and stfu,
the internet is a big truck which you can dump something on!
Crash29930 4 years ago 7
ROFL.
He most definitely DID predict and form the concept of the internets over one hundred years ago.
EpixAndGlod 4 years ago
o'rly
bakewon 4 years ago
@AlmightyDeided I do agree with you! As an internet plumber, I too know what Internet looks like, and it sure ain't a big truck!
morphman86 1 year ago
Srsly.
Adeon55 4 years ago
No, seriously.
MacAndy555666 4 years ago
this is why we need to get all the old people out of office beef the shit out of homeland security make it so hard to get in the country you have to pass 10 tests be for you can step foot in a prison
aquaaura56 4 years ago
I think that senility is starting to set in...
yegyof 4 years ago
Its not a big truck OR a series of tubes XD
b0vine91 4 years ago
Is it just one internet that is a series of tubes, or all the internets?
jlop985 4 years ago
all your internets are belong to me!
garrbarr 4 years ago
Someone set up us the virus!!!
ZDST 4 years ago
move zig, u know what u doing take off every zig
xshamousx 4 years ago
All your internets are belong to us!
mrjack93109 3 years ago 3
the internet belong to all who uses it
hovbri 4 years ago
Imma prove this bitch wrong by building a tube truck, bitch. Long live Internets
applestuddel 4 years ago 5
Maybe he was using an analogy.
Paul84674 4 years ago
Or maybe he just doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
velocitas 4 years ago 2
Tubes.
Serious business
hoodenmcburg 4 years ago
i thought that was a habitrail!...my mistake
1036beach 4 years ago
i series of tube!!!
joshmoss108 4 years ago
But of course! how come we didn't see it before? It's a series of tubes, people!
nologinforme 5 years ago
LOL, a series of tubes, i wonder what Super Mario has to say about it!?
i742 5 years ago
Awesome. A series of tubes!
camogirl7 5 years ago