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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.'"
Since when is an online petition worth more than a squirt of piss?
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As they say, justice delayed is justice denied.
Yeah. And I'd like to know how this actually helps Turing? He's dead. Is it helping his family?
I've read about what was done to him. His life was made horrible his last few years and now this statement is released benefiting who now?
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
he was nothing more than a fag.
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.
Consider that today, you can be gay and a programmer...
So Alan Turing was a Cocoa developer before Macs were even invented? Man, he must've been good. Also, has anybody else accidentally spelled out "Anal Turing" when Googling his name? That's no accident.
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Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Alan Turing is dead beacause of Republicans.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
I wonder how many Palestinian lives were lost because of his deeds...
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I wonder how many Nazi lives were lost because of his deeds...
Exactly like those, in fact. Meaningless, useless, and arguably immoral.
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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)
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Excellent insight how thanks to Turing we now have Ubuntu. It takes a bit of thinking but the link is definitely there.
I do.
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Apparently the movement in Britain to legitimate homosexuality began as a rebellion against the infusion of Judeo-Christian ideals in society and the onerous ethical requirements of the Victorian era. That said, I argue that it is no accident that during the era it was said that the sun never sets on the British Empire, while these days other powers are in ascendancy.
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods
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.
It doesn't help Turing.
But it helps me, just a bit.
I genuinely appreciate it.
Why? Are you a fudge-packer? Ass-bandit?
Real genius?
If you were a real genius you wouldn't put yourself in a situation that sucks ass for you.
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I don't get it. He was a fag and fags burn in hell. Are we celebrating him burning 60 years in hell or what? The man loved getting it up the ass and we're celebrating that? He had his contributions but that's not the issue here. It's his anus loving that everyone is discussing. I bet the fag force will use this to say that because he was a fagot he discovered what he did. You wanna fuck someone in the ass and be a fag that's your business. But I'm sure fags would be less than bored if the next big thing was discovered by a pussy loving man. They would cry bigotry and claim he stole it from a fag and the US government being sensitive to fagots worldwide, would deny the straight man his hard work. Good job assholes (literally). If some of you would put on some wigs and fake boobs I will more than fuck you. I love trannys.
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.
Neither will liberals.
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.
And yet it's the Western nations full of Christians that are the most liberal...
Liberals say those things all the time.
Women are not stupid, yet they lack the intelligence to use birth control and be careful with sex? I sense a contradiction there.
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.
And who cares about the resulting baby? Not liberals, that's for sure.
But we should. People with those kinds of defects can just adopt.
And yet when you have consenting sex with your sister
The word is "consensual", you fucking retarded inbred faggot.
Gordon Brown is a bigger poofter than Turing.