Ron Paul is the new Linux?

Linux & Ron Paul. As American as Apples in a Pie.

And both are the answer to out-of-control monopolies.

I am a Ron Paul supporter and use both Linux and Windows. I also use MySQL, if you are curious.

Both are just tools. I choose the right tool for the right job.

That is how I treat my politics, too.

Love your math challenge... someone has to at least know 1st grade math to post here!! Brilliant! That must cut down on a lot of dumb posts.

"But now we have a new Internet freak threat: the Ron Paul commenters. Mention Rep. Paul, and your blog gets a crap-storm of comments, just as if you said "Linux is not ready for the enterprise" or something."

Not one to be left out, you baited the sycophants.

We are persistent and passionate about Ron Paul. I can understand how that could annoy a blogmaster. This is however what makes blogs and the internet so great. It is public domain where people can express themselves and the topics they are passionate about. Write about Ron Paul and we will come.

OMG OMG OMG!!

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT!!!

OMG I AM HAVING A HEART ATTACK!

::GASP:: guh...ughhhhh

rrr.....ughh...hrmmm.......

whew

OMG RON PAUL BABY!!!

OK, I'll bite.
RON PAUL
RON PAUL
RON PAUL!

HE HE ...I thought I'd join in...

RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL....I'll come back again later:D

Ron Paul's approach to his campaign is that it parallels Open Source. He lets the supporters (in Open Source they would be devlopers) take his message and add on to it without any top-down control.

Every supporter can fork off his branch and take from it what they want and use it in a postivie way.

The 4.3 million drive was not started by Paul or his campaign. It was a supporter who took his message, spliced some PR saviness and then ran with his own distribution to an overwhelming success.

The transparancy of the online donation ticker is another example of how Ron Paul lets his supports add to the message without having to dictate to them or in Open Souce "lock them in"

Libertarianism runs strong in most Open Source advocates and such Ron Paul's "laissez faire" approach is the perfect fit

I use PCLOS beside Win98 (so old it's nearly virus-proof) on my machine.

Ron Paul is reshaping the political landscape because his supporters are motivated to get involved with the first true "different" political stance in over 40 years. They are the people who wind up paying for everyone else's gradiose schemes as implemented via government edict without any benefit to the payer. Many long ago succumbed to apathy and gave up.

His support spreads quickly because there are a lot more disenfranchised payers than there are non-deserving recievers. As his campaign gains more coverage, the ranks of his supporters will grow....and grow. They will continue to send money and VOTE.

The internet and technology has enabled this change. People can post cell-phone videos on youtube and see for themselves what REALLY happened rather than be spoon-fed 'spin' by the main stream media. Ron Paul's supporters are everywhere at once via their own passion for getting the truth out to one another online.

It's difficult for the talking heads and pundits to deny a video posted online which blantantly contradicts their statements. When the populace at large sees such things it only feeds their determination to change things, which translates into more support for Dr. Paul.

Linux posters and Ron Paul posters: a good parallel comparison.

Both groups are passionate about 'their' position and want to correct mis-information when they find it. Some are a bit zealous at times in both camps.

No offense, but the only 'crap-load' I see is where you call them "flamers".

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
-Barry Goldwater 1964

I don't use Linux.

RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL!

GO RON PAUL!!!

GO RON PAUL!!!

There, I feel better now.

;-)

We use Linux because we can't get the real thing in Unix.

We love Ron Paul because we can't get the real thing in Thomas Jefferson.

The Democrats are like Windows, big, out of control, bad products, no plan.

The rest of the GOP is like Apple: better product but no market and way too much secrecy and incompatible with other products.

Any other dumb questions? Like for example, your addition filter, which number base would you like that in?

12+37 = 110001, 1211, 301, 144, 121, 100, 61, 54, 49, 45, 41, 3A, 37, 34, and 31 for bases 2-16...

And 1 in base 49...

But at least it's not as stupid as the "what color is an orange?" one (green when not ripe, orange when ripe, red if s blood orange, gray-green if molding, black if dead), even if they both have multiple answers.

Find a better filter. And never argue with an engineer.

Huh... thought someone was dissing Ron Paul. What the hell is Linux? WHOOOOO - GO RON PAUL '08 (lol. hey, you guys asked for it!)

Who is Ron Paul?

What is Linux?

So given that you know what's going to happen, we can safely assume you're just digging for traffic and some e-mail addresses? Well played, dig on.

I'm going to have to take the bait on this one. Ron Paul pretty much IS political Linux, except he now has a boatload of money and a whole lot a grassroots support.

RON PAUL for president 2008!

ronpaul2008.com

What I've found from volunteering for Ron Paul is that there is only one common attribute uniting all Ron Paul supporters:

We think for ourselves, and make up our own minds about what we like (in this case, which presidential candidate would make the best president.)

I rarely use Linux, but I suspect the Linux evangelists out there share the same independence of thought.

I voted for Ron Paul in 1988, and I have been an everyday user of Linux since 1998.

I don't really know who Ron Paul is or that much about Linux except it makes a great floor wax.

But I do find a lot more ladies come my way when I mention the Ron man!!

I may try to wear a pin shaped liked a penguin with Ron Paul's head on it. Ya know the ladies would be all over that!!

Oh I did hear a rumor that Ron Paul would let me keep all the money I earn - but that seems so radical, why should I own my own money? Next thing you know folks will think they own their own bodies and can smoke cannabis and stuff.

Gotta go - happy hour.

I used be part of the green party but now im a proud republican. Vote for freedom. Vote for Ron Paul.

I use Linux, but not because I'm computer literate - it's because I'm cheap. Ron Paul is the Linux of politics. He has no control of the kernel. He tries to put out his version, tries to make it compatible with as many other programs as possible, and relies on the end user to either put it to use or modify it so that it's acceptable.

This was the original intent of the founders. They were the political version of of of ...whoever invented Linux. Yeah Linux! Yeah capitalism! Yeah Ron Paul!

What, is Ron Paul really the new Linux? Let's see:

Linux: is an OS.
Ron Paul: is a person.

Linux: runs your web servers.
Ron Paul: hogs your web servers.

Linux: can be patched.
Ron Paul: can be pitched. (No, Cawdor, you can't unilaterally apply a diff to his platform and just implement it in your favourite precinct.)

Linux: likes penguins.
Ron Paul: likes weasel words. (On gay marriage, he says that he's for freedom of association, and "people can call it whatever they want"? Why not just say he's for gay marriage? Looks like our brave libertarian leader is afraid of angering some conservative reactionaries.)

Linux: saves electrical power.
Ron Paul: saves electrical power companies. (He suggested that the statistics of global warming needs to be "redone". Yeah, if the data don't go your way, we must keep redoing them until they obey! What a science-hater.)

"I wonder how many of the Ron Paul fans are Linux users."

One more here; liberty of operating system and liberty of government go hand-in-hand.

Is it surprising that everyone of these Ron Paul supporters who are so full of Independent Thinking(tm) tend to write the most brainless things which are utterly devoid of any sort of thought?

Do they have a checklist of talking points which they just regurgitate, just like their more conservative counterparts? Maybe the two even compare notes.

Pier Johnson says _I'm_ a parrot? After totally failing to actually address a single point in my specific criticisms of Ron Paul and then brainlessly throwing up yet another instalment of the usual crop of Grand Fluffy Factless Statements?

As they say: You can learn to think for yourself, but only Ron Paul can show you how!

"Find a better filter. And never argue with an engineer."

I don't know, Tannim; natural language processing is much more promising than captcha.

And those damn spammers are so clever, they may actually solve the natural language problem on the way to delivering spam!

Surely what the Free World needs, Klutometis, is a way to mask the name of r0n p4ul, or Ron Pau1, or Rοn Pαul, etc. in such a way that spammers will have a field day trying to find the blog entries. We must fight the ron-fanboys at Google so that we won't have to fight them here!

Unity requires disagreement.