The internet is truly a major part of life these days. Even denizens of third world countries lacking in water, food, and life expectancy have readily available access to the internet. But what is the internet? Certainly it is not a big truck, as the astute Senator Stevens states. It is in fact, more like a series of tubes. Considering 99.5% of the internet is pornography, you have a vast network of tubes, some facing outwards, some facing inwards. This interconnection of tubes is what creates the pornogrinternet. You dont just dump stuff on the pornogrinternet. You have to pass it between tubes. In general it is the traditional one tube entering one other tube at a time of client/server downloading. Now we have such technologies as Bit Torrent, where many tubes stick into one tube and pump information in and out rapidly. Then there are more open p2p rings like Kazaa, where your tube indiscriminately enters other tubes and often picks up deadly viruses. You can even raw-dog an FTP connection, where your tube enters another tube without any protection. There are some very desirable tubes out there too that can land you in big trouble. Everyone remembers the hot Russian AllOfMp3. Everyone wanted to get inside that tube, but it could land you in jail. All in all there are a lot of tubes on the internet, and its your decision on how you use it.
President Bush recently explained to a convention of veterans that America’s experience in Vietnam should be a lesson to those who want U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq. he drew several carefully prepared examples. ‘Remember how difficult it was for Jon Voight to reintegrate into society?’ This drew several curious faces from the crowd until a presidential aide displayed a photo from ‘Coming Home’ on the projector. Ah yes, realization sank in. It was hard. What about Rambo? That whole incedent caused much needless loss of life. Despite the fictitious nature of these examples, many thought it should have been apparent to the President that the best way to prevent a physcotic super marine from returning home tweaked out from the war and killing civilians with a .50 cal machine gun and sharpened sticks would have been to limit the scope and length of the war in the first place, and more importantly provide proper military care after the fact. But the President had a better idea. ‘Keep them there indefinitely.’