Letters to the Editor
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Ron Paul <> Linux
Ron Paul doesn't really fit with Linux very well, and I think that his supporters would agree. I would guess that he is more of a BSD. My guess would be OpenBSD.
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TRS
I think the brand that best represents Huckabee is the TRS. He's bit stuck in the past, not quite what he represents himself to be, and libel to glitch in unexpected places because he isn't really the hip, current guy he pretends to be.
For a more current example, how about CompUSA?
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Ron Paul is a Mac
Ron Paul is a Mac.
The dominate ethos of Mac's are "We're surging forward and are being adopted by users."
You can expect Ron Paul's exit to happen early in the primaries but his "smarter than thou" rhetoric to continue for years to come -- just like Mac users!
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AppleBee
I think Apple fits Huckabee perfectly. Both rely on a small, closed minded percentage of the population to further their agenda. This "following" believes their system is better than the one used by 85% of the world, yet act as though they are number one. I can assure you that the current popularity of Mr AppleHuckaBee will fade as fast as the iphones; but this time drastically cutting the price and giving folks their money back, won't help.
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Good grief.
Was this really necessary? Are you coming up short on page hits? Or did you come down with the digital strain of vapiditizing maureendowditosis.
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old-timey
I'd call him a commodore-64. Those fundamentalists are as obsolete as it gets.
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I also vote for the
Commodore-64.
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Moo!
Heaven forbid he could ever be associated with Stoner Steve.
Gateway, for sure, even if he's no longer as big as a cow.
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Fully digital
Mike Huckabee computes on his fingers.
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yawn.
Don't waste bandwidth with cutesy stories like this. If you want to say something about Huckabee and tech, cool. You could actually inform us: I know nothing about Huckabee's stance on any issue related to tech. Of course, that might require doing journalism. Much easier to phone something like this piece in.
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He's not even an OS
He's a PowerPoint presentation.
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If Huckabee is a Mac...
...he is the original 128K Mac with a limited black and white display and at most a single floppy disk drive, incapable of expansion or the ability to run modern software.
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Huckabee is....
a sliderule.
3 significant digits are all the precision an evangelical candidate for president needs.
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HuckaBe
If anything, Huckabee reminds me of BeOS. It was flashier than Windows, but lacked the modern stylishness of a Mac. It was more advanced technically than it appeared -- running some cross-platform programs easily -- but now looks a little bit dated. It was a perennial also-ran and always struggled to gain market share from the 800 lb gorillas in its market. One of its early, obvious allies was poached by the front-runner. And it still has a rabidly loyal fanbase, though some of its underpinnings have changed since its initial debut in the early '90s.
Of course, if you work hard enough you can justify describing any candidate as any piece of software, so you could probably apply the above to Clinton, Romney, and Gravel if you wanted.
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what computer is huckabee?
epson. it's defunct.
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Huckabee is like....
Microsoft. He pretends to be beneficent. while he actually is a non-intellectual, know-nothing, anti-gay bigot, who needs a lot of fixes and patches to be acceptable to anyone.
Reminds me of a corporate culture which is out for itself only, not the nation, not the people.
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Huckabee is a virus
A pernicious, despicable, hate-filled, contagious and ultimately destructive virus. He is incurable, and will delete every civil right he is allowed to infect. Our misfortune is that he is not demonstrably different from most of the other Republican candidates.
Not that rebooting with Democrats has been much help...
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Huckabee is a virus
A pernicious, despicable, hate-filled, contagious and ultimately destructive virus. He is incurable, and will delete every civil right he is allowed to infect. Our misfortune is that he is not demonstrably different from most of the other Republican candidates.
Not that rebooting with Democrats has been much help...
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I'm sorry...
... but this story is way too stupid to be allowed to pass without comment.
I suppose it may be valuable to a small pocket of future historians to see how wide-eyed Mac fanboys measure Presidential candidates up against expensive ad-generated market imagery for major corporations, but it's certainly not of interest to anyone on this planet at this time.
Politicians want to be popular. They'll latch onto any meme in the common culture they can, whether organically-generated or paid for through years of slick ad campaigns. Of course they'd want to ride on the coattails of Apple's multi-billion $$ "We are just the coolest folks on the planet!" image, if they can do it for free, just like everybody else who wants to sell something. No news there.
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Mike Huckabee is Neither a Mac Nor a PC
He is a barking loon, a theocrat who would fuck this country even harder than Bush has, or Giuliani would. If he gets within a whisp of the Whitehouse the entire electorate deserves a personality transplant.
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Fairchild
Huckabee is the Fairchild, one of those 70s first generation videogame systems that was obsolete almost as soon as it came out. Everything is square and generic, but still kind of fun to play until you can get a real videogame system. Huckabee is surging, but the extra chromosome right wing will toss him aside if anything better comes along.
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What do you mean, "we"?
Ahem... "When we think of Apple, we picture not only computers and music players and phones but also an identity, a value system and a set of beliefs, something very like a friend." Um, not quite. That's what consumer-tech writers think of when they think of Apple. When I think of Apple, I think of overpriced consumer objects with proprietary software and a mean streak cleverly hidden by focus-grouped marketing. That, and "style." Who wants to bet that Pogue and all the poguettes of the world will be embarrassed twenty years from now when they look back at the vapid designs that they drool over today?
And, btw, there is no way that Kerry was a PC. PC = stolid and bloated but also powerful, functional, and geeky in a corporate way. Kerry is too slim to be a PC, and completely ungeeky. So what is he? Well... he's Kerry. Do we all have to be consumer objects from some corporation's ads? As for Huckabee, it's bad enough that he's Huckabee. Just leave it at that, please.