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John McAfee On Why He's Running For President

Posted by timothy on from the john-how-can-we-un-install-your-software? dept.

Velcroman1 writes: Our government is in a dysfunctional state. It is also illiterate when it comes to technology. Technology is not a tool that should be used for a government to invade our privacy. Technology should not be the scapegoat when we fail to protect our digital assets and tools of commerce. These are matters of priorities." So says John McAfee, offering up a brief explanation into why he's running for president. As noted earlier on slashdot, McAfee has filed paperwork already (PDF) to found a new party.

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  1. well by ThatsDrDangerToYou · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At least politics is no longer boring...

  2. Re:Lottery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It wasn't a disaster until Obama and Valarie fucked it up along with Afghanistan, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, and now Iran. These clowns could fuck up a wet dream...

  3. Try using REAL DATA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Daily Kos is not a valid source; it's on par with Bozo the Clown or Big Bird. It's a site set up by hard-left activists to advance hard-left politics and is no better than Politifact, which is run by Democrats.

    Try THIS CHART from the St Louis Fed which shows that the NET gain in jobs for all of the Obama years is only about 1 million, and THIS CHART which shows NET gain in jobs for foreign-born workers over the same span of the Obama years as nearly 2 million.

    All the political candidates (on BOTH SIDES) and their paid hacks, activist mouthpieces, and corporate and/or union shills play with numbers to mislead people in various ways; some compare data from different time spans, some (usually Obama supporters) cite all the increases but ignore the losses (same trick they use with Obamacare coverage) some cite all the monthly gains (hoping the reader will misunderstand the data and mentally add them all up and see tens of millions on new jobs). Incidentally, the GOP is just as guilty when they are in power of citing a list of monthly gains and knowing they are tricking the average user into misleading himself. The problems with summing the monthlies are: [a] they do not include the monthly losses, [b] they include very temporary and seasonal jobs.