{"id":444,"date":"2006-11-05T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/05\/ted-stevens-isnt-the-less-tech-savvy-senator\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T18:36:07","slug":"ted-stevens-isnt-the-less-tech-savvy-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/05\/ted-stevens-isnt-the-less-tech-savvy-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Stevens isn’t the less tech savvy Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alaska senator Ted Stevens has become the epitome of I-have-no-clue-about-technology US Senators after his describing Internet as “series of tubes” (and don’t dare sentence them to ignominy if you’re -like me- from France, a country where President Jacques Chirac failed to remember a few years ago the name of this little rodent we use with our computer and christened it “mulot” (vole<\/em>) instead of “souris” (mouse<\/em>). However, some wonder about the real positions these US Senators take when voting on real laws. This is why C|net decided to rank the US Senators<\/a> and some surprises are to be found.<\/p>\n

Those appearing at the top of the list are modestly satisfied of course. Top score goes to “George Allen, a first-term Virginia Republican who won the top score in the Senate, at 78 percent, after becoming chairman of the Senate High Tech Task Force five years ago.<\/em>” Rep. Ron Paul, Texas-R topped the House with 80%.<\/p>\n

But “Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, voted in the pro-tech direction in only 2 of 13 votes. That put in him second-to-last place in the Senate, with a score of just 15 percent.<\/em>” The Senate bottom seems to be Democrat Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, with just 14 percent (Akaka scored well on just 2 of 14 votes).<\/p>\n

Of course, the loosers do complain about the quality of the rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alaska senator Ted Stevens has become the epitome of I-have-no-clue-about-technology US Senators after his describing Internet as “series of tubes” (and don’t dare sentence them to ignominy if you’re -like me- from France, a country where President Jacques Chirac failed to remember a few years ago the name of this little rodent we use with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,43,29,35,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-enterprise","category-internet","category-sciences","category-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}