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paysonwelch writes "John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer and human rights advocate, today announced that he will host a news conference to ask the world for its protection against the Government of Belize. On his official blog, whoismcafee.com, Mr. McAfee has accused the Belize government of widespread corruption. Because of this, Mr. McAfee feels that he will be in grave danger if he were to be returned to there."
Seriously, how long are we going to keep feeding this poor nutcase's attention habit?
Right after I watch Dexter and Homeland, and go to sleep.
He may be a wonderful person. I've heard little about him, and it's good that he's trying to fight corruption in government (good luck to him). But does anyone actually like McAfee Antivirus? I always think of it as something non tech-savvy parents and grandparents use.
John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer and human rights advocate...
I would have worded that slightly differently. Maybe something like this:
John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer, paranoiac, hedonistic designer drug addict, possible crack head, and guy with a really bad dye job...
Yes... Maybe something like that.
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Wouldn't it be funny if this McAfee guy was telling the truth?
Just because you're weird doesn't mean you're a liar. I'm not saying he's not cuckoo, but stranger things have happened than what McAfee is asserting happened to him.
I just hope he doesn't get hurt and doesn't hurt anyone. And I hope he's merely delusional.
You are welcome on my lawn.
A Central American government with widespread corruption? Say it isn't so !
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I'm going to pitch a reality show to the networks starring McAfee, Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom.
The Larry, Moe and Curly of Internet head cases. And each week they travel the world to interview other Internet head cases that are simultaneously heroes and repulsive. Hilarity and pie fights ensue.
The opening credits are their three faces, arranged side by side in the manner of the famous opening for Three Stooges episodes. Or maybe dress them up like D'Artagnan, Porthos and Aramis. Or Groucho, Harpo and Chico.
Tell me you wouldn't watch those three lovable knuckleheads get into trouble and adventure. Get some woman to play a Margaret Dumont type character and you've really got a hit on your hands.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Intel (owners of McAfee the company), must be rolling their eyes wondering how they can shut the nut up. The damage it is doing to the McAfee brand must be significant.
systems running mcafee are in grave danger of ruining slow or crashing.
How's dodging taxes working out for you? USA due process seems pretty good now, right? Maybe even USA jails.
You know what, fuck you. You didn't want to be here. So fine, you get to stay there, wherever it is. Fuck you.
Mr. McAfee has accused the Belize government of widespread corruption.
Says the sixty-seven year old guy who bought an off-shore island retreat for himself, seven barely-of-age sexual playmates, and the chance to fry his brain, and perhaps those of the girls as well, with an unlimited supply of home-brewed psychoactive drugs.
The guy who escaped to a country
And this is from a guy on "super perv powder" who "recommended that the most effective way to take a dose is via rectal insertion, a procedure known as "plugging," writing: "Measure your dose, apply a small amount of saliva to just the tip of your middle finger, press it against the dose, insert. Doesn't really hurt as much as it sounds." Yeah, McAfee is so credible.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
founder of awful antivirus
Actually, it used to be really good antivirus software.
Of course, the dominant PC operating system at that time was MS-DOS 3.3, but still, it used to be pretty good.
I'm starting to not find this whacko's bizarre behavior interesting. It has nothing to do with technology, just someone with too much money and time on his hands.
systems running mcafee are in grave danger of ruining slow or crashing.
Isn't that how systems running McAfee usually run?
"McAfee's an egomaniacal, drug-addled degenerate! Let me ignore this please! I have to entertain myself with tales of honorable serial-killers!"
I'm pretty sure that there isn't one of you, who'd not give his right-nut, for just ONE of John McAfee's weekends...
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17 is not underage in most of the world.
I find it kind of funny how a guy that left America to avoid paying taxes is now hoping to get back in due to (as he claims) being framed for a murder after not paying bribes to the government. Oh, so now you want to pay taxes and get my sympathy? Nice.
The guy has sex with underage girls
Not that same BS again about Samantha being underage.
As much as some of you are repulsed by the idea of a 66 years old man with a 20 years old younger woman, that doesn't make her remotely underage.
You talk as if the good old USA federal government doesn't have its own serious set of corruption issues. Hint: it's full of them too. Pick your poison. That said, leaving the U.S. for Belize, of all countries, was an incredibly stupid move. Surely there are some much better places in the world to pick from.
Guatemala wants to deport him to Belize, but he is a US citizen. Instead of trying to stay in Guatemala, I would think he has a better chance of convincing them to return him to the US (at his expense, due to the greater distance compared to Belize) than of being allowed to stay in Guatemala.
But I see no sign that he's trying to go back to the US. Did he surrender his US citizenship?
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You seem to confuse our governments first world problems which are trivial at best with real issues in a central american country.
You have no clue what a corrupt government is.
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I really, really, really hope he's going to announce McAfee Anti-Virus for Linux!
Corruption is corruption, no matter how major or minor it is.
He's not a murderer and methcook. He's just a victim of circumstance and government conspiracy just like Hans fucking Reiser.
Who edits this crap?
Guatemala wants to deport him to Belize, but he is a US citizen.
Right here you know something fishy is up.
Guatemala has no extradition treaty with Belize. The fact that he is an American citizen means that automatically, that is where he should be sent when deported, he has no say in the matter since he has entered the country illegally.
Being deported to Belize means someone, or many someones are being paid off by Belize.
Unfortunately for McAffee, he's been deemed wacky enough that the U.S. government seems unlikely to try and help him, even though he'll probably be killed if sent to Belize.
Fortunately for McAffee, he has a lot of money (apparently). The delay you see in deportation is probably the attempt to get him to out-bid Belize.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The guy has sex with underage girls
So are you claiming that you willingly and purposely put effort into remaining a virgin until after you turned 18?
Right. Let's just say I don't believe you.
Not to mention that even if it was true, you personally yourself have also had sex with underage girls, following your own definition. (Of course I am assuming you have had sex at least once... I won't be cruel and will give you the benefit of the doubt here)
In Madagascar the legal age of consent is 21. If you have had sex with anyone under the age of 21, you have had sex with underage girls, as defined by that country.
Do you also realize how many countries have their legal age of consent at 13 or 14 years old?
13 years old: Japan, Spain, and Syria
14 years old: Albania, Bolivia, Bosnia, Columbia (for males, it's 12 for females!), Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Swaziland.
The one point that matters is the law in Belize however.
There, the age of consent is 16 for unmarried females, and 14 for married.
Let me repeat that for you: 16 and 17 year old girls are NOT underage in Belize! Hell, he could have gone even younger than he did if he married her first, and would still be perfectly legal.
You accusing a person of having underage sex when in fact the girls were perfectly of age in that country is absolutely no different than me accusing you of having sex with underage girls because it is defined as over 18 in other countries.
So how would you like to revise your statement? Is McAfee not a child molester, or are you admitting to being one instead?
Since the begining of all this I still cant think this is anything other than a publicity stunt, maybe its just me.
Why would he need to do that? He is already Number One out of all the available options. - McAfee
20 years old is not "underage", but don't let things like facts stop you from lying.
I'm 34 and to be honest the idea of having sex with anyone under the age of about 22 is getting creepier and more unappealing with each year that goes by. I think I went off the idea of sleeping with 17 year olds when I was about 20. Should I to expect some kind of mid-life crisis related reversion around 50 r something? How much older are you talking about?
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17 is not underage in most of the world.
16 in Belize, 18 in Guatemala. Ages of consent in North America But generalizations are dangerous and law and custom may differ --- something the American expatriate of a certain age would do well to remember.
Just stopping to ask those questions is probably why you won't be celebrating retirement by ending up on a sex offenders register.
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You're keeping me alive because you don't know DOS?
17 is not underage in most parts of the world. In Belieze, they are legal at 16. The UK, where I live is the same except that if you are in a "position of responsibility" in respect of the person in question, eg their teacher, you have to wait until they are 18.
Yeah...no. It's not the same. As an analogy, that's like saying crime is crime, no matter how major or minor it is when comparing murder to jaywalking.
America has its fair share of problems, and I sure hope that the US gets better, but I completely disagree with your statement.
-Turkey
I only find comments about people hating him without any legit reason, just like Assange. Come on, they are trying to help the population against the business-controlled government who try to take control over everything, let's help them please.
Seriously, is slashdot getting paid to post this retarded shit about a delusional, obscure loser?
He hasn't done anything of note in years, and when he was an actual tech person he made shitty software.
I'm sorry, are you talking about McAfee or RMS?
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Could we please, please, stop calling this horse's ass a "software pioneer". Donald Knuth is as software pioneer. John McAfee is a business man gone feral. Get it?
He's in Guatemala illegally - when you are deported, you are generally sent back to the country you came from.
If that were true you could never deport anyone that come in to your country from a place they were not a citizen of.
Or what happens when they do not know how you entered the country? You just get to stay? They pick a random country and send you there hoping the other country takes you?
It just happens that in this case Belize wants McAffee. But what if they didn't want to arrest him. Why would Belize WANT to take an American citizen who entered a country illegally?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So when it's Belize or some other central-American country it's corruption, but if it's the United States we're talking about it's "problems?" Just little pesky problems? That sounds like pure hypocrisy to me. If you really want to play the dictionary game, could they not be called "problems" in Belize as well--perhaps just bigger ones?
That sounds to me like the same reasoning people have when they whine when someone calls other people who are mentally retarded "retarded", and then request that everyone refers to them as being "slow," "special," "challenged" or some other--dare I say it--retarded word. It's the same damn thing, just different wording, purposely more neutral and less negative in connotation, or even pointlessly positive in some cases. All to change the perception.
Just because corruption is not as bad here doesn't mean that it does not exist.
For your murder/jaywalking comparison, though I'm not talking about either one here, the United States government considers many relatively harmless, petty things as "crimes" with severe criminal penalties. People get punished hardcore for stupid shit every day here in the U.S. in ways that make their actual "crimes" seem as pathetic as jaywalking. Jails and prisons are meant to keep dangerous people away from society where they cannot harm people, yet with the current laws people are held imprisoned for things that are completely harmless. One famous case in point? Tommy Chong. Time in the slammer with potentially actual dangerous people for being involved in selling glass pipes. People harmed? Zero. Last I heard, no one was beat to death with a fucking bong.
I never suggested that hypocrisy didn't exist in America...and while I agree that your Tommy Chong example is a valid example of misdirected justice, I'm not really sure how this is relevant to a discussion about political corruption.
However, I suggest that you go to a country where, in order to get a drivers license or building permit, a bribe must be paid. Go to a country where you have to carry a little extra cash, just in case you are stopped by the police. Then tell me how bad America's corruption is - and that it's just as bad as the corruption in the rest of the world (corruption is corruption, as you say). I, for one, have never had to bribe an American official in my life. Have you?
-Turkey
Should be very interested, especially with what's going on now with their founder...