The Linux Extremist

Here’s a demonstration of how 3D games could work in the future:

I have to say - just wow.

I’m not known for sugarcoating things. Thus I can say without shocking too many people, Democrat voters of New Hampshire, yes you, the accountant in the phony Scottish tartan flannel shirt and the Soccer Mom who believes that bumper stickers on the back of her giant Volvo estate are a way to save the environment - you’re idiots. You are mind numbingly, blitheringly dumb. Hopefully God has blessed you in other ways because obviously He didn’t give you the capacity to think.

Why am I saying this? For those who missed out on the news, Hillary Clinton narrowly won the Democrat Presidential Primary in New Hampshire, thus reviving a campaign that should be gathering mold and icicles in the morgue of American political history.

Hillary Clinton represents much of what I hate. Before feminists leap down my throat, it’s not the fact that she’s a woman. It’s because she couldn’t come up with a genuine emotion if her life depended on it: absolutely everything about her is contrived, marketed, packaged. When she speaks, it’s as if she is lecturing a bunch of not-too-bright children on how to behave. That said, what really grates on me is her sense of entitlement. Try this exercise - whenever she snaps at someone, mentally preface her statements with “how dare you”. You’ll find that it not only fits, it shows the real character of the woman: she believes that she is destined to win the nomination, destined to be President and no one has the right to question her plans, her policies, her experience or her temprament. She has been acting like this for years.

There is something familiar about her approach, and her presentation as the inevitable, logical choice, the industry standard, the voice of experience. From my perspective, she sounds a lot like Microsoft.

If one really thinks about it, Hillary Clinton is the Windows Vista of candidates: we are being told this is the upgrade America needs. After the Windows ME years of President Bush, the country needs all the packages and upgrades that are being foisted upon it by this woman. For example, her ideas on health care mandates - basically forcing everyone to buy health insurance - sound Microsoft-ish: we’re going to make you take it out, you are not free to make choices for yourself. No doubt, she is more or less slickly packaged; however, it doesn’t take much stress for cracks to appear.

This is in stark contrast to Obama. He apparently has learned something, indeed, a central principle of the Open Source movement: greater participation is key to progress, and a monolith is not nearly as good at advancing things as a diverse group that pulls together voluntarily.

For example, from day one, he has called upon Republicans and independents to work with him, in spite of being opposed to many of their beliefs. Presumably, he regards their participation as providing a proof of concept of his own plans. Additionally, his speeches are notable for calling for participation from the wider public: by no means has he suggested that he alone is the agent of change, rather, it will require change driven by the nation as a whole. Unlike Hillary, he hasn’t included mandates in his plans; he has stated that he assumes that people will be intelligent enough to choose health insurance for themselves.

At the very least, this call for citizens to be active in the life of their country is a sign of inclusiveness that Hillary’s top-down approach lacks. Furthermore, it shows humility, a quality that no one sane would accuse her of having.

Before I’m accused of going completely off on a weird tangent, I should point out by a strange coincidence, according to Netcraft, Hillary’s website is running off of Windows Server 2003, and Obama’s is running off of Linux.

So again, I have to say to Democrats in America: you pick this woman at your peril. As someone on this side of the Atlantic, I have to say the yakkity yak that we hear out of this pantsuited nightmare is already tedious. No matter how intelligent you may think she is, her brainpower does not outweigh that of a whole country; in understanding the frontiers of his intellect and personal power, Obama shows that he’s smarter than she. The only way she could be attractive is if you find thinking hurts you and you’d rather she did it in your stead.

The primaries are about to move on to Nevada and South Carolina. Hopefully the winter freeze hasn’t dulled their senses in the same way that it did the faux LL Bean lumberjacks and the silly mums who are fighting middle aged spread and think they’re on an episode of Desperate Housewives. Hopefully, they’ll go Open Source and make the right choice.