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John McAfee Announces He Will Run For President of the United States

posted by janrinok on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-next? dept.

John McAfee running for president

bart writes:

Anti-virus software tycoon John McAfee plans to run for President, the developer confirmed on Tuesday. He will run under his own newly created "Cyber Party."

http://time.com/4025991/john-mcafee-running-for-president/?xid=tcoshare

The self-described "eccentric millionaire," known for a strange run-in with authorities in Belize three years ago, said his primary motivation to enter the race was the government's problems with security and surveillance.

"We are losing privacy at an alarming rate — we have none left. We've given up so much for the illusion of security and our government is simply dysfunctional," he said, adding that he plans to release an explainer for his new Cyber Party.

John McAfee is running [for] president

Rashek writes:

McAfee, developer of the first commercial anti-virus program, has said he is going to announce a bid for the White House, and will create the Cyber Party to do so. "I have a huge underground following on the web," he told CNN. The website McAfee2016.com has also popped up.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by captain normal on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:48AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:48AM (#234527)

    Trump, Huckabee, Perry, Cruz, Walker, Paul, Fiorina, Gilmore, Graham, Webb, O'Malley...what a list of characters. Maybe Ethanol Fueled should toss his hat in the ring.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:53AM (#234529)

    I would count Clinton as well.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:56AM (#234531)
      Who is that clit-on you are talking about?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:57AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:57AM (#234546)

        Who is that clit-on you are talking about?

        That would be EthanolFueled, who is heavily into telling us about sexual exploits that we would rather not even be aware of.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @03:15PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @03:15PM (#234688)

          We need to know... EthanolFueled?

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:12AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:12AM (#234533) Homepage Journal

    I expect in 2016.

    My objectives are to promote growth in the kinds of jobs whose workers won't need to commute to Portland.

    Clark County's biggest industry right now is real estate. Housing subdivisions are going in everywhere but there are no jobs for the people who live in those houses so they commute to Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Wilsonville and the like. This results in huge, long, all-day traffic jams.

    I sit in the bus and laugh at the sheeple but really I should do something about it.

    I have yet to hear tell of any Vancouver or Clark County government official working to create software jobs. There are other occupations that would avoid the need to cross the Columbia - marketing for example.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Thursday September 10 2015, @08:57AM

      by isostatic (365) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 10 2015, @08:57AM (#234573) Journal

      More likely that people who work in Portland are buying houses in your county because it's cheap enough to afford and is commutable enough to make it work.

      As jobs centralise in urban areas, the solutions are things like Singapore and the HDB, or longer and longer commutes.

      The alternative of working from home isn't realistic for many people. I do it 4 days a week but still need to make a 40 minutes flight or 200 mile train journey one day a week just for contact.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 10 2015, @02:18PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 10 2015, @02:18PM (#234664) Journal

      "I sit in the bus and laugh at the sheeple"

      I wasn't aware that you had a sense of irony. Learn something new every day, hey?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:38AM (#234539)

    I and every voice in my head shall vote for the McAfee. I concur, and so do I, and I as well.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @10:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @10:17AM (#234592)

    Inanimate carbon rod for the win, in recognition of his long overlooked "tireless efforts" which the country could not function without. Doh.