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likemyorbs
Feb 20, 2009, 10:08 PM
Turns out the thief Bernie Madoff is a macbook or macbook pro user. this picture is from 20/20, i took it right off the tv. bernie madoff sitting on his macbook like nothing is wrong. thats one person i wish didnt switch to mac...


dukebound85
Feb 20, 2009, 10:09 PM
why do you care? does it affect you at all? seriously
likemyorbs
Feb 20, 2009, 10:11 PM
why do you care? does it affect you at all? seriously

well seeing how he deserves to be hanged yes, its like Sadam Hussein using a macbook, that would suck.
NewMacbookPlz
Feb 20, 2009, 10:13 PM
Hurt your mac pride OP? :p
dukebound85
Feb 20, 2009, 10:14 PM
well seeing how he deserves to be hanged yes, its like Sadam Hussein using a macbook, that would suck.

he deserves to be hanged? wow...that speaks volumes about you now doesnt it

once again, how does this affect you again? its not like hes the only "bad" guy to use an apple

compared to Sadaam? how can you even make that comparison?
claimed4all
Feb 20, 2009, 10:14 PM
Just saw that on 20/20. Funny Stuff.


Trickle Down affect, thats how it affects us.
sillyrabbitt
Feb 20, 2009, 10:15 PM
well seeing how he deserves to be hanged yes, its like Sadam Hussein using a macbook, that would suck.

what about the bailout ponzi scheme, this guys a piker compared to what is really going on.
yoyo5280
Feb 20, 2009, 10:16 PM
I don't know who Madoff is :s

Bush used a mac
Rush uses a mac.


Thats like a punch in the stomach.

But oh well, what can you do?
Raid
Feb 20, 2009, 10:22 PM
I don't know who Madoff is :s

Bush used a mac
Rush uses a mac.


Thats like a punch in the stomach.

But oh well, what can you do? Take solace in the fact that they at least made one good decision in the past 8 years? :D

Back to topic, who cares? The type of products you buy don't define a person entirely. It's like saying I'm Micheal Jordan for putting on a pair of Nikes.
bagelche
Feb 20, 2009, 10:23 PM
Bush used a mac? when he used the google? I doubt that Bush was/is even remotely a regular computer user. Much was made about the archaic state of the white house's computer setup when the Obama team moved in. Still, the O keys were there (and the W keys were there when Bush moved in as well).
adamvk
Feb 20, 2009, 10:24 PM
I saw this on TV last night too, and thought the exact same thing...:)
JML42691
Feb 20, 2009, 10:29 PM
To be honest, I don't care that he uses a Mac, and I know that he was a major scammer that deserves to get the book thrown at him, but I don't believe that calls for a camera spying through his house window...

Even a crook should deserve privacy in his own home.
MultiM
Feb 22, 2009, 12:20 PM
To be honest, I don't care that he uses a Mac, and I know that he was a major scammer that deserves to get the book thrown at him, but I don't believe that calls for a camera spying through his house window...

Even a crook should deserve privacy in his own home.

Perhaps, but some crooks shouldn't have access to their homes or computers/internet. Let's coddle the financial Hitler of the decade...
Dmac77
Feb 23, 2009, 12:44 AM
well seeing how he deserves to be hanged yes, its like Sadam Hussein using a macbook, that would suck.

He does not deserve to be hanged. Did he rape someone? Did he kill someone? Did he commit treason? That answer to all of those is no. I'm not trying to defend him, but come on. What he did was wrong, but he certainly doesn't deserve to be hung, or to spend the rest of his life in prison.

EDIT:

@ MultiM-

"Financial Hitler" really?

Don
és:
Feb 23, 2009, 12:51 AM
I have to agree with dukebound85 on this. Why does this bother anyone. They days are gone where one Mac user reflects upon another, so it doesn't really mean anything other than he had enough money to walk into a store and buy one.
EricNau
Feb 23, 2009, 12:52 AM
why do you care? does it affect you at all? seriously
Yet we always seem to care when a favorite celebrity uses a mac.
bartelby
Feb 23, 2009, 01:02 AM
Yet we always seem to care when a favorite celebrity uses a mac.

Not all of us.
Some of us couldn't care less who uses Apple products.
és:
Feb 23, 2009, 01:06 AM
Not all of us.
Some of us couldn't care less who uses Apple products.

Unless it's Stephen Fry ;)
robanga
Feb 23, 2009, 01:17 AM
I heard he has a picture of this guy for his wallpaper...
SactoGuy18
Feb 23, 2009, 08:34 AM
Yet we always seem to care when a favorite celebrity uses a mac.

I think it's the "cult of Macintosh" that has everything to do with it, though.

Speaking of Macs, I wonder did the Obama Administration finally ditch all the Windows PCs at the White House and set up a bunch of iMacs in the White House offices? That right there would be a couple of hundred new iMacs Apple could have sold to the White House through a local dealer with a GSA Schedule. :D
Juventuz
Feb 23, 2009, 03:54 PM
No, the WH is forced to use the windows pc's because of the Secret Service. They wouldn't allow for a switch to Mac's.
mactastic
Feb 23, 2009, 04:18 PM
No, the WH is forced to use the windows pc's because of the Secret Service. They wouldn't allow for a switch to Mac's.
It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Bill Gates conspired with a Windows-loving alien overlord and they went in halvsies on a huge bribe to the Secret Service (why do you think they call them the SECRET Service, huh?)
jessica.
Feb 23, 2009, 04:20 PM
Ahhh the pretentious nature of a mac user that online bloggers keep blogging about. So refreshing. :rolleyes:

WTFC is what I have to say about it.
jaydub
Feb 23, 2009, 04:25 PM
I don't think I could care less if he was beating an old man with his MacBook.
PcBgone
Feb 23, 2009, 04:42 PM
Speaking of Macs, I wonder did the Obama Administration finally ditch all the Windows PCs at the White House and set up a bunch of iMacs in the White House offices? That right there would be a couple of hundred new iMacs Apple could have sold to the White House through a local dealer with a GSA Schedule. :D

You want to spend that kind of money, on the white house, during a recession(possibly the biggest recession since the depression)?
I see how the sheep follow the shepherd...blindly...
TSE
Feb 23, 2009, 04:44 PM
First of all, you are comparing a man of fraud to a man of killing thousands of people (Madoff and Saddam). All the money in the world isn't worth a persons life.

Second of all, who gives a flying **** if somebody uses an Apple computer.
mactastic
Feb 23, 2009, 04:56 PM
You want to spend that kind of money, on the white house, during a recession(possibly the biggest recession since the depression)?
I see how the sheep follow the shepherd...blindly...

That's stimulus! Although it's a poor example of it, since the manufacturing portion of the spending would go to China, even if Apple got it's cut. It would be better to spend it putting American-built solar panels on the roof of the WH IMHO.
Mord
Feb 23, 2009, 05:26 PM
http://www.destinationdoowop.com/thanks-for-the-info.jpg
63dot
Feb 23, 2009, 05:36 PM
Maybe Saddam used one, maybe bin Laden uses one. I know Rush Limbaugh, one I don't like either, likes his Mac.

It's a tool, and a product, just like anything else. I love Diet Coke, for instance, and I am sure there are vicious third world dictators who drink the stuff. But that won't change my taste for that product.

We here on Macrumors have already seen the pictures of Steve Jobs using his Sony VAIO PC laptop some years back in his office at Pixar, but who really cares? I have Macs and yes, one PC. Computers are just tools, although very useful, but still tools.