On a side note, when I was in telecom, My boss (who had been in the industry for 15 years) used to tell me about working for MCI and doing surveying and laying copper in several middle eastern countries. He told me some stories that would make the hair on your neck stand up.
He said it was an open secret that MCI was giving his team suitcases of cash to bribe officials and the military just to allow them to do their job. Stories of being pulled over at gunpoint, negotiating with military people and being able to talk through the process of a bribe was something he always maintained was part of the day-to-day survival game they played.
...as a tangent, I'm impressed and slightly weirded out by the fact that I googled for "etymology demented" and it answered directly with an etymological tree for the word. Google's getting smarter.
Was this confirmed somewhere? I can't find any evidence with a quick search and I saw some of his interviews during the presidential campaign (he was running from the libertarian nomination I think) and he seemed ok.
Anyway, not to distract this discussion into a further tangent, I think the best way is to charitably read it as "paranoid schizophrenic episode" (which is kind of fair, yes?) and the "mind AWOL" remark as hyperbole, without reading too much behind it. It was a setup to the post's main point anyway, the anecdotal part.
Like I understand that he has done a lot of crazy drug addled things but I don't think that necessarily means that he is stupid or insane.
McAfee is someone who kept a minor girlfriend, fled Belize after being implicated in the murder of his neighbor and spent most of his time down there booty bumping bath salts.
For some perspective.
source?
Having lived in Cambodia (nowhere near as dangerous as Belize, but probably just as corrupt), being implicated with a crime you didn't commit isn't the most far fetched thing.
It is the same in USA. Every "decent" divorce lawyer's first step is for the wife to whack herself on the face, call the police, and get the husband kicked out of the house. The cops don't like it, but they have to take the report. Sometimes they have enough spine to not arrest the dude.
All interested parties including lawyers, judges, police get involved for financial gain.
Yeah this too. Family court is the biggest racket going now.
Like every single other human being on this planet. It's a feature of our brains.
I still don't understand what's the reason to treat McAfee as extremely unreliable. Could someone state the reasons explicitly?
In my experience, most of us don't move down to Belize to manufacture research chemicals and fuck underage women then get implicated in a murder all while being investigated for tax evasion.
There's a phrase I'm never going to google. I'm happily ignorant.
http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/541627-Hello-and-an-MDPV...