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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by ne0flex »

carl_dr wrote: post #472
romanovcode wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK U.S. is the only country that makes you pay tax even if you are tax resident of different country. Ironically it does not apply to corporations that fail to pay billions in tax.

The US and Eritrea. I knew this was a thing, but I had always assumed a US citizen living abroad only ended up paying tax to the IRS if the tax they paid to the foreign government was less than what they would have paid to the US, and only the difference is paid. But it seems that’s not the case, and you get an exemption for “only” the first $108,700 of your earnings. As with everything the IRS does, it seems complex…

A friend of mine that is a Canada & US dual citizen got royally screwed by the IRS. Canada has tax free savings accounts (TFSA) that are essentially retirement accounts that are similar to Roth IRA in the US, except with a lot less restrictions. He had opened his TFSA account in Canada when he was 18 and was investing since then. Eventually he got a green card and became a US citizen. It was at that point he realized that the US doesn't consider the TFSA to be a retirement account and that it's fully taxable. This is an account he had prior to moving to the US / having anything to do with the US, and he had to pay taxes on it.

I can't remember if the amount was exempted under $108,700 but I don't think it was given how mad he was that he closed the account because the paper work wasn't work dealing with.

My dad's friend told me a horror story about his friend's mom who was born in the US while he parents were on vacation but she never lived there. The mother is currently retired and is collecting a pension, then she got a letter from the IRS saying that she owed back taxes because she's a US citizen and never filed.

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

whiskyant wrote: post #232
dnh44 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I remember the story correctly the neighbour killed his dogs. That’s a pretty strong motive.

John Wick agrees

This makes me wonder if he was a source of inspiration for the movies...

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Post by dragonwriter »

FireBeyond wrote: post #700
dragonwriter wrote: post #689

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A US federal judge found him culpable for a murder civilly False. A US federal judge entered a default judgement against him in a wrongful death suit. Murder is not a civil offense, the standards for civil wrongful death are not remotely the same as murder, and wrongful death liability (even based on a trial and evidence) doesn't indicate that one has even approximately committed murder. And, in any case the judgem…

> It establishes civil liability, but does not indicate anything (or even that anyone has reached any judgement) about the relevant facts. Hence the word culpable, and not guilty.

My point was that the claim was of limited relevance in context, not that it was false.

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Post by [deleted] »

RIMR wrote: post #632
henvic wrote: post #625

No one deserves to be kidnapped and throw in a cell for the victimless crime of tax evasion. RIP, McAfee. In the 20th century: ~8 million were murdered in mundane crimes. ~175 million people were murdered by the state. Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.

Tax evasion isn't victimless. It is a civic duty to pay into the system that you benefit directly from. Freedom isn't free. Tax evasion is theft from the public. Tax evaders steal from you .

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Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by bingidingi »

slim wrote: post #548
bingidingi wrote: post #196

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Put someone in a room and prevent them from sleeping for a few days and I'm pretty sure you could convince anyone to kill themselves. There's no absolute certainty that can ever be provided.

That's murder, not suicide. I think you made a point, but not the one you thought you made

yes true! but the point is also that the mind is malleable, there's no guarantee that anything I say today will be true tomorrow... there are endless circumstances

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Post by pabs3 »

bena wrote: post #260
quenix wrote: post #206

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You run a VM just to inspect "sketchy-looking links"? That sounds like paranoid behavior, if I'm being honest.

A healthy paranoia if you grew up with the internet. When a link can compromise an entire machine, having a machine you can literally throw away with no consequence is nice. Hell, I'd wager to say that containers wouldn't be a thing if it weren't for this kind of behavior. Looking for ways to build up and destroy VMs even faster.

Try qemu's microvm mode, combined with virtiofs:

https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.ht... https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by chaganated »

mc32 wrote: post #3

Good or bad, what a sad ending to a colorful life. The guy was troubled and had many shortcomings, but he was colorful and also achieved success and arguably was one of the seminal figures in the nascent AV industry. Sad to see his fall from grace and into a world of extravagance, deceit and cheating (taxes) and, if allegations true, even worse; then to end it on the floor of a jail -all by his own hands.

The system that most people here serve, and pay taxes to, is a mass human sacrifice ritual, and most of you, despite your years, still fail to grasp this.

McAfee was a free man. His sins (excluding tax evasion, which is righteousness, not sin), were tainted with nowhere near the same slavishness and stupidity as our sins of tax-paying complicity in this satanic system.

Rest in peace John McAfee, you glorious bastard!

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Post by selimthegrim »

mrtksn wrote: post #521
mrosett wrote: post #262

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The obvious point you're making is about a double standard -- rich people are unfairly given more slack than others. But an alternative framing amounts to evaluating a method by its results -- basically saying "I don't know why you're behaving that way, but for reasons I don't understand it seems to work for you." That obviously falls apart if you can cleanly separate their wealth/financial success from their behavio…

I was actually referring to the slack given to him for apparent murder and putting the police force on a payroll. “killing your neighbor, bribing the police and never serving a single day for it? What an eccentric person you are”

Belize cops seem to be manning the till quite frequently judging by the case of their ex Governor General’s relative and one of their own

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by astrange »

carl_dr wrote: post #472
romanovcode wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK U.S. is the only country that makes you pay tax even if you are tax resident of different country. Ironically it does not apply to corporations that fail to pay billions in tax.

The US and Eritrea. I knew this was a thing, but I had always assumed a US citizen living abroad only ended up paying tax to the IRS if the tax they paid to the foreign government was less than what they would have paid to the US, and only the difference is paid. But it seems that’s not the case, and you get an exemption for “only” the first $108,700 of your earnings. As with everything the IRS does, it seems complex…

> The US and Eritrea.

And China, in theory and sometimes in practice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/china-sta...

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