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.'"

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Re:Proud to be sorry, an odd concept

[StackedCrooked]

And "I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him". I guess British pride gets in the way for a more humble way of phrasing an apology.

My apology

[oldhack]

If you experienced the momentary outtage of slashdot - my bad. Big burrito lunch, you understand.

Re:Congratulations, I guess

[bigstrat2003]

Exactly like those, in fact. Meaningless, useless, and arguably immoral.

And Nobel invented Dynamite

[ghoul]

Brown's an ass. What kind of guy says that Turing is most famous for breaking Enigma codes. Turing is famous for his contribution to AI and most importantly the Turing test and the Turing award (Computer Science's Nobel prize equivalent) If Gordon Brown was paying tribute to Alfred Nobel he would probably forget to mention the Nobel prize and talk about how Nobel made his money selling dynamite to the Czar. As I said what an ass. Pity the brits that they have idiots for leaders (its not new started with Thatcher)

Re:It's about damn time.

[grumbel]

The kind of freedom you support, is not freedom at all.

You seem to have a very weird definition of "freedom", the Nazi Germany kind of it seems, where the state can decide who shall and shall not mate with each other and who shall get eradicated from the gene pool.

Re:It's about damn time.

[BitZtream]

Real genius?

If you were a real genius you wouldn't put yourself in a situation that sucks ass for you.

Re:It's about damn time.

[Dr. Impossible]

You bet your sweet ass I'm bigoted against bigots.

Yes, just make sure you're bigoted against the right bigots. If the bigots in question happened to be Muslims, blacks, gays or feminists, instead of Christians, then suddenly you would find yourself lynched by an angry mob.

Bigots and Zealots won't let other people go about their business.

Neither will liberals.

And you bet your sweet ass I hate Christians.

I guarantee your post would not be +3 if you had said Muslims instead of Christians. Someone would have called you a bigot, in fact.

But then I don't admire other religions, because anyone who tends to believe in imaginary friends also thinks they're the coolest and only friends *anyone* should *ever* admire, so at the end of the day religion serves as a petri dish for growing whole cultures of bigots.

And yet it's the Western nations full of Christians that are the most liberal...

With the whole brown good, white bad, men bad, women good you're just being silly. No "liberal" will say that, that's just bone-headed.

Liberals say those things all the time.

Maybe y'all should legalize abortion, so that women (who are generally not that stupid, given the choice) can make some decisions that would curb that trend.

Women are not stupid, yet they lack the intelligence to use birth control and be careful with sex? I sense a contradiction there.

Having said that, clinging to guns and religion is plainly unintelligent

There is not a single valid argument against the ownership and use of firearms. Self-defense is a natural and inalienable human right, and firearms are essential to self-defense (as well as law enforcement and national defense).

And seeing as how liberals are some of the most unintelligent people on the planet, you're really in no position to call other people stupid.