MacDailyNews reader Alex has sent a link to kremlin.ru, the site of President of Russ1a, Dmitry Medvedev, which features several photos of Medvedev seated in front of his MacBook Pro.
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That’s about as much of a wanted endorsement as Cheney’s was for McCain.
Apple has always been popular with the Left. Why would this be a surprise?
Great.
The “president” of a socialist dictatorship masquerading as a republic and – if Obama and the mainstream media pull it off – the “president” of a republic masquerading as a socialist dictatorship will both be Mac users.
Comrade Steve Jobs must be smiling today.
Proudly voting for McCain-Palin 2008.
HarshTruth, proudly promoting his own idiocy in 2008.
Jamie, proudly proclaiming his inability to handle HarshTruth in 2008.
Jamie, proudly promoting his continued plans to sit on his ass all day while someone else (Rich People) buy him health insurance, and pay his mortgage, and gives him food stamps, etc etc….
Obama 08
The Choice of Bums ‘Cause some people aren’t interested in Employment!!
Choose Democracy & Capitalism.
Vote McCain!
I’m not votin’ for Obama cos Hussein rhymes with insane. Think about it, now…..
Boy, I get tired of all the political bullshit that gets thrown on here. But since we’re on the topic, I just want to point out that Obama is no more of a socialist than Bill Clinton was.
And that economy really sucked, didn’t it?
You know, you can disagree on taxes and how much and whom should be taxed, but labeling Obama a communist doesn’t do anyone in this country any favors. It just pours more oil into the water. By the end, the truth is murkier and the division is even more intense.
Now, back to Apple news already in progress. . .
Sweden is closer to a definition of socialist.
Russia doesn’t really take care of its people — the rich business overlords run the country. In many ways modern Russia is more comparable to the way America was during the Gilded Age.
If Obama gets in and raises my taxes (including capital gains) I will fire employees in order to maintain my standard of living.
In effect – taxing the “rich” means taxing everyone but the “rich.” We will continue to live the good life. Don’t you worry about us.
The rest of you underachievers can frequent the bread lines for all I care. I’ll be on my yacht if you need me.
Obama will take a struggling economy and kill it.
Because of my own hard work (not taking from others) I have more than enough cash for several generations to live very, very comfortable lives.
Surely there is a functional, moderate compromise in here somewhere… After all, you can’t cut taxes towards zero in hopes that tax revenue will soar towards infinity, nor can the government provide every service for “free” that anyone might want. Let’s get practical and actually solve some problems.
– Reduce spending by trimming unnecessary programs and figuring out how to provide key services more efficiently
– Match revenue (taxation) to spending to balance things out
– Develop a national program that combines practical fossil fuel development with a strong push for conservation/efficiency and multiple forms of alternative energy (hydro, solar, wind, wave, geothermal, and nuclear).
1,000 employee business owner
800 employee business owner
250 employee business owner
See you on the bread line.
Can the adolescent crap, guys!
Unstead, behold the process of cultural change!
One user at a time. And that scene may be the best of compliments.
I’d like to visit with Medvedev, perhaps on an airplane trip, long enough to discuss how he goes about using that Mac Pro. He’s likely as on top of his machine as I am on mine.
And, I’m just guessing here, that absolute beauty sitting beside him has one purpose, to make sure that Mac Pro works as her boss thinks it should. (Can you just imagine the extent of her role as she attempts to aggregate his daily needs into that one small machine?)
There’s a huge human interest story here. Will someone qualified please (Пожалуйста!) attend to this reporting task?
Besides, Дарю вам говорят по-русски?
He is developing a Five Year Plan to better utilize firewire among the Kossacks.
I am amazed at the number of people smart enough to use Macs and dumb enough to vote for people whose policies have put us in the biggest hole we’ve ever been in. Thankfully, it looks like you morons won’t be able to steal this one.
McCAIN CAMPAIGN MEMO: READING THE EXIT POLLS
Mon Nov 03 2008 16:53:14 ET
As we have seen in previous election cycles, the exit poll results do leak early and that ends up influencing the coverage of the race before even the first state polls close at 6:00 PM Eastern.
However, we want to remind the campaign that the media’s own post-election study of the exit polls in 2004 showed that the exit polls overstate the Democratic candidate’s support. Therefore, we would discourage a rush to judgment based on the exit polls and wait until there has been a representative sampling of actual tabulated results from a variety of counties and precincts in a state.
Here are the key points to keep in mind when the exit poll data starts being leaked:
1. Historically, exit polls have tended to overstate the Democratic vote.
2. The exit polls are likely to overstate the Obama vote because Obama voters are more likely to participate in the exit poll.
3. The exit polls have tended to skew most Democratic in years where there is high turnout and high vote interest like in 1992 and 2004.
4. It is not just the national exit poll that skews Democratic, but each of the state exit polls also suffers from the same Democratic leanings.
5. The results of the exit polls are also influenced by the demographics of the voters who conduct the exit polls.
After the 2004 election, the National Election Pool completed a study investigating why the exit polls that year showed John Kerry over performing 5.5 net points better than the actual results showed him to have done. Their conclusion was that the primary reason the exit polls was that Kerry voters and Democrats were more likely to participate in the exit polls.
“Our investigation of the differences between the exit poll estimates and the actual vote count point to one primary reason: in a number of precincts a higher than average Within Precinct Error most likely due to Kerry voters participating in the exit polls at a higher rate than Bush voters. There has been partisan overstatements in previous elections, more often overstating the Democrat, but occasionally overstating the Republican.
We believe that this will hold true this year. The recent Fox News survey showed that 46% of Obama voters said they were very likely to participate in the exit polls, while just 35% of McCain supporters are.
In fact, even the 2004 exit poll report noted that higher turnout nationally and higher levels of voter interest in both 1992 and 2004 correlated with greater Within Precinct Error.
The overstating of the Democratic vote did not only occur in the national exit polls, but also occurred in the state exit polls. The 2004 exit poll report cited that the Kerry vote was overstated by more than one standard error in 26 states, while the Bush vote was overstated in just four states. So we should also expect the individual state exit polls on Tuesday to be more Democratic as well.
So given that turnout is expected to be even higher than 2004 and that Democrats are more likely to participate in the exit polls, this means we should expect greater fluctuation and variation in the exit polls from the actual election results.
The 2004 exit poll report also showed that the greatest error in the exit poll came in precincts where the interviewer was younger. The completion rates were lower and the refusal rates and Within Precinct Error was higher when the interviewers were under the age of 35.[6] Complicating this is that nearly half the interviewers were under the age of 35, including 35% who were 18-24 and another 15% were 25-34.
Conclusions
Based on the previous exit poll results, we should expect once again that Tuesday’s exit poll data could overstate the Obama vote and under represent the McCain vote.
It is important that the campaign make sure the media realizes this, so that when the exit polls do leak, people do not overreact to the early exit poll data. Rather than looking at the exit polls, we should wait until we start seeing actual election results from key precincts and counties to gauge who won the election.
Medvedev is a well-known gadget freak who loves his iPhone. Not surprising he has a MBP.
That’s about as much of a wanted endorsement as Michael Moore’s was for Obama.
That’s about as much of a wanted endorsement as Ed Asner’s was for Obama.
That’s about as much of a wanted endorsement as Hugo Chavez’s was for Obama.
That’s about as much of a wanted endorsement as Julia Roberts’ was for Obama.
That’s about as much of a wanted endorsement as Hamas’ was for Obama.
Etc., etc., etc., etc.
I am amazed at the number of people smart enough to use Macs and dumb enough to vote for people whose policies have put us in the biggest hole we’ve ever been in. Thankfully, it looks like you morons won’t be able to steal this one.
Yeah, those Democrat voters have put us in a real pickle. I still think Obama may be able to steal this election…
Seriously, pressuring banks to lend money to people unable to pay it back was not a Republican idea.
If you love your government – vote for Obama.
If you love your country – vote for McCain.
Re: 1000 Employee Business Owner:
You’re an asshole.
KingMel,
Because you are obviously too stupid (Obama voter) to have understood it the first time, I repeat:
Because of my own hard work (not taking from others) I have more than enough cash for several generations to live very, very comfortable lives.
Obama will take a struggling economy and kill it.
Remember what my warning just before you leap off a bridge in despair over the loss of your small American dream – and don’t you dare land on my yacht ‘s mahogany decking, you loser.
“I am amazed at the number of people smart enough to use Macs and dumb enough to vote for people whose policies have put us in the biggest hole we’ve ever been in. “
I’m amazed and saddened how stupid the American people got in 60 years. WWII was absolutely “The Greatest Generation” – the generation who fought for freedom, liberty, and this nation.
2008’s generation is willing to throw the entire country away. After tomorrow, the United State of America will no longer exist soon to replaced by the United Socialist States of America….
The free and the brave have been replaced by a nation of bums and pussies willing to wave the white flag and expecting to sit on their asses all day and receive handouts from working people.
As someone who grew up in Russia and lived through the horrors of socialism, I could assure you that Russia is quite the opposite to e socialist dictatorship – Limited government, no welfare state (take that Obama), low taxes – a 13% flat tax – no federal, state, city or other income taxes. No taxes on small business for first five years.
@ all
cut the political crap
I guess the point is that he knows a lot of spyware crap is made in Russia. Hence his choice for a Mac Book. Unless he is using it only because Apple is cool with the ‘Nouveau Riche’ over there while running windows…