Well that's surreal. I took a moment to check if this was a parody, a la The Onion.
I shudder to imagine the lengths one would have to go to in order to parody John McAfee.
True. It's probably easier, and equally effective, to arrange an interview.
The Setup: John McAfee
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#22Well that's surreal. I took a moment to check if this was a parody, a la The Onion.
And to be clear, I never gained any certainty whether this is a parody.
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#23John McAfee is crazy and any listening to his rants is a waste of time. I unfortunately read this one thinking it was actually a parody, but since there was no punchline, I realize now I've been suckered into another pointless article. I'm still in disbelief that bragging about a gun is actually coming from a 68 year old man(boy?).
Read between the lines - it's not bragging, it's a pointed threat.
It's trying to be a "pointed threat," but it's really pompous, swaggering machismo, which we might as well call "bragging."
(Assuming it's real, of course. Poe's Law is in effect.)
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#24"My favorite real-time software is the XM153 remote control software that comes standard with the XM153 50 caliber machine gun. It is solid, never crashes, easy to use and easy to install." If you don't appreciate the genius of that answer you are dead inside. BTW it's obviously a fake.
The video is priceless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg The guy is completely insane.
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#25"They allow me to solve 2nd order partial differential equations in my head and to spontaneously create 4 dimensional images of software structures that I can mentally manipulate."
Dude, teach me! But seriously, although the first boast is pretty much BS, I was surprised to learn that there is actually something called software visualization, albeit in 3D: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~bieman/Pubs/StaplesBieman99.pdf If only the authors knew about the "smart drugs"!
Anybody know more about this topic?
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#26This is a shitty version of "Breaking Bad"...
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#27"They allow me to solve 2nd order partial differential equations in my head and to spontaneously create 4 dimensional images of software structures that I can mentally manipulate." Dude, teach me! But seriously, although the first boast is pretty much BS, I was surprised to learn that there is actually something called software visualization, albeit in 3D: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~bieman/Pubs/StaplesBieman99.pdf…
The 4th dimension is clearly time :)
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#29John McAfee is crazy and any listening to his rants is a waste of time. I unfortunately read this one thinking it was actually a parody, but since there was no punchline, I realize now I've been suckered into another pointless article. I'm still in disbelief that bragging about a gun is actually coming from a 68 year old man(boy?).
> I unfortunately read this one thinking it was actually a parody, but since there was no punchline . . ..
Yeah Me too, guess we were the punchline.
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#30The funny thing is that is a fucking GSG-5 .22lr mockery of the HK MP5, with a fake suppressor attached to make it legal as a rifle (16"), in his photo. That's like posing with a "mac" from fisher price.
If this fisher price thing is loaded, pointed at someone, and you pull the trigger will it hurt or possibly even kill that someone?
Another question: if a bunch of well trained delta force operatives went up against an equally numbered random thugs where delta force had the fisher price thing and the thugs had whatever you said was better, who would win you think?
I don't get some people's attitudes when it comes to guns.