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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 fastball »

nkmnz wrote: post #568
freddie_mercury wrote: post #453

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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…

Nope, we don’t add up prison time in Germany for repeating the same or related crimes over and over. On top, the 10/15 years are the maximum and barely reached. E.g. Uli Hoeneß, ex-manager of the soccer club Bayern Munich, got 3.5 years for evasion of ~30m dollar in a total of 7 counts, but could actually leave prison after sth like two years, 1.5 of which where „open jail time“, so he could go to work and only had t…

Are you holding that up as an example of a functional justice system?

Because that strikes me as more dysfunctional, where people are getting preferential treatment because they're part of the German footie machine.

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

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Post by kerkeslager »

mjfl wrote: post #706
vmception wrote: post #544

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Thats not interesting when its 9 months in advance Maybe a few weeks People arent just able to make a perpetual conspiracy indefinitely in the future, or you dont have to entertain people trying to do that I wont here He has increasingly depressing messages in an increasingly dimmed outlook and an increasing time in prison

The guys been in prison before and seemed to enjoy it, posted pictures from prison in the dominican republic which is way worse than spanish prison. The guy talked about being content a week ago, "I'm old and content with food and a bed", he felt bad for the young people who were afraid of prison. He was still able to tweet and enjoyed interacting with people. If you think he killed himself, you don't understand how…

If there's anything I've learned in my life, it's that I don't understand how humans work. Which is why I'm pretty skeptical of your implicit claim that you do know how humans work.

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

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Post by hajile »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #772
gpt5 wrote: post #504

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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.

I believe selective enforcement is a core part of policing in the US. No police agency has enough resources to go after everybody who breaks the law, so they make examples of high profile defendants to deter others.

One of two things is true. Either they believe everyone should be doing 30 years (preposterous) or they know they are committing a grave injustice against someone.

There is no reasonable interpretation of selective enforcement.

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Post by fastball »

G3rn0ti wrote: post #418

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?

As a counterpoint, Germany uses fines much, much more as a punishment than the US, which can easily be seen as a regressive punishment – it is a punishment which is much worse for the poor than it is for the rich. Meanwhile prison is something both the poor and the rich want to avoid equally.

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Post by throwaway3699 »

Scoundreller wrote: post #243
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.

If anything, not paranoid enough because still tracking. This place would be one of the best to hit with a 0day. Lots of IT people with full admin rights to entire corporate networks.

Doesn't fit the risk profile. 0days are used with surgical precision, not simply to dunk on hundreds of random businesses.

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Post by reedjosh »

G3rn0ti wrote: post #418

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?

Lol, free country. Also the country with the highest per capita imprisonment.

I'm in the US. It's purely Orwellian double speak.

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Post by atlgator »

neom wrote: post #66

I met John in an Atlanta airport lounge years ago[1]. I recognized him immediately as I've always admired him, and I decided to go up to him and tell him as much. He invited me to sit down, and told him about when I was a teenager in the 90s learning about tech entrepreneurs at the time, I always thought he was pretty cool and had good ideas. I told him I respected him, and that I was sure he'd lived an incredible li…

I think people like that always have positive energy whether feigned or real. It's what attracts people (and money) to them. Famous celebrities, high level execs, politicians that I've met all had similar outward charm.

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Post by rodgerd »

JoeQuery wrote: post #691
Railsify wrote: post #685

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A US federal judge finding anything adds no validity to the claim.

Why not?

Because when people say "Innocent until proven guilty", what they actually mean is "nothing will change my mind."

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Post by poisonarena »

piva00 wrote: post #688
gibybo wrote: post #672

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According to the linked post, Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) aka bath salts.

In more recent articles about it it seems to be a variation of alpha-PVP (flakka), something called alpha-PHP that is outside of any schedule for drugs. Basically a designer cathinone that is (or was) still legal.

I smoked alpha pvp in a transit home in Saint Petersburg with some Georgian immigrants thinking it was meth, It made me really really high, and I spent the whole next day crying. I suspect this is a pretty popular drug in Russia.

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Post by poisonarena »

gkoberger wrote: post #25
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.

I mean, he very likely killed his neighbor in 2012... so I feel like "colorful" undermines how much of a monster he's been for over a decade.

yeah but the guy poisoned his dogs right?
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