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He had enough charges lined up (up to 5 years for every count, IIRC) that he would likely be imprisoned for life. Goes without saying but he was also an incredibly paranoid person.
He was 75.8 years old at the time of his death and the average life expectancy for a male in the United States is 76.3.
I choose to remember him like this: "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" => https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg
I notice he stresses the first syllable of his name. Is "McAfee" always pronounced that way, also in England, Ireland and Scotland?
Wikipedia gives the pronunciation as /ˈmækəfiː/, like in the video. Is it reasonable to suppose that if lots of people pronounced the name differently then at least one of them would have edited the Wikipedia article to mention the other pronunciation?
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Germany has more draconic laws than the US in this situation, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. "Under German law, the maximum term for one count of aggravated tax evasion is 10 years. If an accused is convicted of more than one count, the court can increase the maximum to 15 years." The US is 5 years for each count, half of Germany's. Macafee was under accused of multiple crimes, which added up to the headl…
Prison time here in Germany is limited to 15 years at max — independent on the number of crimes. People imprisoned for violent crimes may stay there for their whole life if they pose an ongoing threat to public safety.
- People imprisoned for violent crimes may stay there for their whole life if they pose an ongoing threat to public safety.
So... Germany DOES have a life sentence. Kinda misleading to state it doesn't.
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I guess Google, Facebook and Apple are stupid then too.
Yes. Yes, they absolutely are, and they should be prosecuted for their tax avoidance. Same with Amazon and all other companies. I, as lone individual tax payer, paid more in taxes in the UK than Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple did, probably combined. That is not okay. Edit: evasion > avoidance.
30 years for tax evasion? No wonder he preferred to die. I mean, you’ll get jail time for severe cases of tax evasion in Germany, too, but it’s a couple of years at max and most of the time it’s on probation. How do you justify your draconic punishments in the US which is supposed to be a free country?
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> I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he's obviously unstable This is ridiculous. Okay so let's leave all the rich people alone who claim they are unstable. McAfee made millions, from what I understand, he paid little taxes on that. That's stupid. I don't care how unstable you are, or how good you are donating your "fair share". You're still not excused from paying your taxes.
Parent poster meant let's not make him look like a loon and hound him relentlessly because of it.
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman I've always used this as an excuse for what might be considered being weird (at least that's what my family tells me).
As Hunter Thompson would say, when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
The sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks. I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he’s obviously unstable, has major problems with drug and alcohol addiction and all they can do is try to bring him even lower. Poor guy had major problems even before the “heroes” of the FBI or the IRS or whatever started screwing with him. Let the poor guy ride off into t…
The dude was found liable for two people's deaths, and evaded taxes, like... I dunno. He doesn't seem like that great of a guy. He seems like a self-centered reckless narcissist leaving destruction in his wake.
Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs.
(Yea--I know, I'm suspose to be compassionate over rich dead guys. By rich dead guys, I mean the neighbor who was constantly complaining over John's dogs whom was found dead. As far as today, they had no evidence against John.)
I liked John. I liked he was different than most rich guys. I painfully remember him stating he doesn't pay taxes. I remember wishing he didn't say that in a documentary.