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Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown
99luftballon writes "The British government has officially apologized for the treatment of Alan Turing in the post war era. An online petition got more than enough signatures to force an official statement and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a lengthy apology. 'Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better.'"
It's nice to see a politician who can actually pass the Turing test.
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You're obviously not familiar with Gordon Brown as a literary wordsmith.
"Liberal" means something entirely different in the US than it does in the Czech Republic.
Since when is an online petition worth more than a squirt of piss?
I'm pretty sure aiming a quart of piss at PM Brown wouldn't have gotten the same response.
Pretty sure, anyway. Ya never know with those Brits...
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There's a Turing machine for that.
You crazy Yanks and your bizarre 'English' language. The correct UK spelling is B-U-D-W-E-I-S-E-R. And it comes in pints, not quarts.
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Its easy to say you are sorry for something that you didn't do and weren't accused of doing.
Yea you're right. I'm sorry :(
Yeah, Hitler was more the case where, the enemy of my enemy is FUCK IT INVADE RUSSIA WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
What was actually said:
Hey it seems that this Turing gay, uh, guy, made it possible to do all the snooping on our citizens. We are now able to store AND process all this data about everybody as Orwell intended it to be.
Thanks Turing. You were not that bad after all.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
You do *not* want to make philosophers angry...I did it once and I think I got away with it, others, not so lucky.
And while it doesn't help me directly, it seems this phrase will get modded up.
I genuinly appriciate it too.
ps. i prefer insightful over funny, i'm not just a joker, i'm a karmawhore too!
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
- Aristotle, "On Memory and Reminiscence" (BC 350)
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Oh, just call him a Nazi and be done with it.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
...so... humanities departments are basically a botnet executing a DDoS on the brains of unsuspecting undergraduates?
Freedom isn't free; its price is the well-being of others.
Plato said that there is no true measure of justice, but it is important for a government to give the appearance of justice to society. This is a textbook example of that in action.
Don't just make up quotes and attribute them to Plato. It makes philosophers really angry.
"I really said that" - Plato
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