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the internets will miss you so!

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday --- I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... 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 big 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.

-- Soon to be former

Senator Ted Stevens, June 2006

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