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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 juskrey »

Natsu wrote: post #810
isoprophlex wrote: post #801

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have photos of the boss fucking dogs in my safe at home. I think my job is secure. That link you posted is WILD. Holy shit if half of everything there is true, that's still super fucked up

Doesn't that quote seem odd to anyone else? I wouldn't think he had a "boss" any more being a multi-millionaire. He was certainly an odd fellow, but I wonder how much we know about the provenance of these random forum threads.

One does not come to a new country out of the blue and become a drug dealer boss

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Post by cable2600 »

toss1 wrote: post #432
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…

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…

We got McAfee for DOS in the late 1980s, dialed up his BBS for updates. Gave out copies at the college because it was shareware at the time, you buy a registration code.

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Post by cable2600 »

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?

Don't forget that he ran for President as well, claiming to clean out the corruption in government with the information he had collected. Other politicians don't pay taxes and they aren't arrested.

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Post by henvic »

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 .

No. The state is a criminal racket, and you have no obligation to sponsor it (if something, you're morally obliged to try to avoid being a victim).

And this is not only because 99% of whatever you pay in tax doesn't come back in terms of services that actually have any value, but because it's rotten at its very foundations.

No wonder in the 20th century 8 million people were victims of murder by mundane crimes committed by private citizens worldwide, while 175 million were murdered by the state.

You only think this because you were brainwashed by statism ever since you were a kid.

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Post by jpttsn »

ceejayoz wrote: post #137
bethecloud wrote: post #8

From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...

He said he'd eat his dick on live TV if Bitcoin didn't hit $500k by last year ( https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887012614131372032 , https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887039604846714881 , https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887024683379544065 ) so the track record on predictions... isn't great.

Maybe he was joking?

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Post by bserge »

Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #846
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.

In fact, this is what they mean when they say it's almost impossible to know who the real sociopaths are. The true ones are so charismatic and good at manipulation that, unless you are extraordinarily close to them or get on their bad side, they just seem like the sort of person that everyone likes. Interestingly, a minority of people seem to be somewhat able to see through the facade. I have ADHD and a brother who's…

It's a slippery slope tbh, you can end up suspicious of everyone, thinking everyone nice is actually a sociopath, when in fact there's nothing sinister under the surface.

Not to mention that people on the spectrum who are trying hard to show emotions appropriate to a situation end up seeming just as unsettling.

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Post by spoonjim »

beezle wrote: post #728
deterministic wrote: post #724

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Watch 'The Fall' mini-series for a good example

I think the word you're looking for is not "example" but "illustration."

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Post by BatteryMountain »

Natsu wrote: post #810
isoprophlex wrote: post #801

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have photos of the boss fucking dogs in my safe at home. I think my job is secure. That link you posted is WILD. Holy shit if half of everything there is true, that's still super fucked up

Doesn't that quote seem odd to anyone else? I wouldn't think he had a "boss" any more being a multi-millionaire. He was certainly an odd fellow, but I wonder how much we know about the provenance of these random forum threads.

He is the boss? Referencing himself? Ha

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Post by BatteryMountain »

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?

He didn't want to end up like Julian Assange. Just speculation.

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Post by greenforer »

XorNot wrote: post #675
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.

Or you know...you could pay your taxes and stop stealing from the rest of us.

You must have defined "stealing" interestingly
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