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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 YooLi »

busymom0 wrote: post #603
enriquto wrote: post #340

One of his last messages, just a few days ago. It is sad and thoughtful: There is much sorrow in prison, disguised as hostility. The sorrow is plainly visible even in the most angry faces. I'm old and content with food and a bed but for the young prison is a horror - a reflection of the minds of those who conceived them. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/140301918407478887...

Relevant Eric Weinstein tweeted this few minutes ago: > I have two bits of information about JE that are not public. > 1) An interchange from McAfee on Epstein. > 2) Knowledge that Epstein was asking after me in a late email just before he died. I have no idea why. There is no more contact about Epstein than one meeting about 20yrs ago. > With that said, there now is nothing I know of again on Epstein that is private…

What is with the downvotes? What am I missing that I should know because I don't see anything out of place with this post? (serious question)

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

rcurry wrote: post #470

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 sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks.

Does it? Or is it just that kooks are likely to commit crimes in ways that result in them getting caught at a higher frequency than non-kooks, especially rich kooks compared to other equally rich people, since rich non-kooks exploit their resources to either structure their misdeeds within the law or arrange means to avoid accountability for their crimes?

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

capeterson wrote: post #705
gizdan wrote: post #489

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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.

IMO extradition over unpaid taxes is kind of severe. I agree that we should all pay our taxes, but why not just hold him at the gate whenever he happens to fly in the US? Is this really something that requires extradition?

> IMO extradition over unpaid taxes is kind of severe?

He wasn't indicted for unpaid taxes, but for tax evasion, which is a different thing (and securities fraud.)

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

gpt5 wrote: post #504
dcolkitt wrote: post #471

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Prison time for tax evasion is extremely rare in the US. Almost always the IRS just collects the penalty and moves on. The only real exceptions are either for criminals with a lot of other charges stacked up (eg mob bosses). Or a public figure making a political statement like Wesley Snipes. Not saying this is good or bad. Just saying it’s how it is. Joe Sixpack who fails to report some cash income will almost certai…

Selective enforcement is bad. The fact that the law says that you could go to prison for one year for not filing taxes on time, but that it's rarely enforced means that they should fix the law. Using it only on "bad guys" is a recipe for the government punishing people that disagrees with them.

The tax code is too confusing and subjective to send everyone who makes a mistake to prison.

Jail is for people who actively dodge taxes, not someone who submitted their taxes a few days late.

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Post by duxup »

3grdlurker wrote: post #738
deterministic wrote: post #724

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Realise that people can be super nice to you and cruel/evil to somebody else. The serial killer living next door might be a great neighbour. That doesn’t change the facts of what he/she is.

This kind of subjectivism is so lacking in nuance, though, that the good parts that one is seeing (and, in many ways, choosing to see) are a mere reduction of the whole truth, and isn’t the whole truth of a person So a serial killer is a good person just because he’s a nice neighbor to you? If you’re hanging out with a friend in your inner circle of elites and that friend is nice to you but is very rude to waiters an…

>So a serial killer is a good person just because he’s a nice neighbor to you?

I don't think that is what the person you responded to was saying. Quite the opposite.

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

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Post by duxup »

onemoresoop wrote: post #500
toss1 wrote: post #432

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My interaction with McAfee was in the pre-internet '80s. I was called when a nearby international school got hit by a computer virus spread on floppy disks. Looking for sources of info, found the "Computer Virus Industry Association". Called, got a little bit of generic advice, and he mostly asked me to send sample disks. Turned out that the "CVIA" was basically a pretext of McAfee trolling for people like me to send…

I'd argue that making those millions turned his life upside down, made his life drown in hedonism, eventually taking his mind and any shred of dignity. Still, RIP John

If given large amounts of resources, status, power, freedom to indulge whatever we wish.

I wonder how many people would also spiral out of control.

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Post by rcstank »

fatbird wrote: post #745
jjk166 wrote: post #690

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It's a logical standard. You can't prove a negative (ie that you didn't do something and thus are innocent), so the burden of proof must always be on those making a claim to show that it is true. While it might not be as dangerous for the gossip column to employ fallacious reasoning as it would be for a court of law, that doesn't stop it from being wrong.

It's not a logical standard, and you can prove a negative. For example, I can prove that I'm not dead, that there's no elephant in the room with me as I type this, and that my wife is not having sex with someone else right now because I can see her on the couch. I wish people would stop saying you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you didn't do something by proving something else that logically excludes you…

What about people who can’t prove a negative but truly are innocent? If you can’t guarantee that 100% can prove a negative, then innocent people would be convicted.

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Post by rank0 »

rcurry wrote: post #470

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…

Are you being serious? Everyone and their mother has mental health issues.

Im not cool working for the government 4 months/year while rich assholes run off screaming “taxation is theft!” and using personal instability as a defense.

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Post by canada_dry »

Interesting tweet by Kim Dotcom... (fuel for the conspiracy theory):

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1407805522175094785

“I wan’t to build an anti surveillance phone Kim. With air-gapped cam & mic, open source OS with VM and the most secure crypto wallet. That will piss the mass spying US govt off. Want to help me?”

— John McAfee

Shortly after he was arrested on “tax charges”. RIP John.

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Post by agonz253 »

lukifer wrote: post #722
p_j_w wrote: post #682

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Geometric Unity, Eric Weinstein's supposed Theory of Everything. It's likely a bunch of nonsense, but the man won't release a paper, so we can't know for sure. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/...

He published a GU paper a few months ago: https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric... (I haven’t read it, I’m not even remotely qualified.)

Two mathematical physicists took the time to go through his talk on it and pointed out serious flaws with it, which the author didn't address in his paper and has gone on to ignore.

[1] https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_...

[2] https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-epis...

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