On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:

> PS just to give a flavour here is one of my posts :-)
>
> "Alan Turing gets a royal pardon"
>
> And about bloody time! (Virtually) win the second world war and
> (virtually) invent computers, be driven to suicide by the police and
> they've kept his "pardon" back all this time.
>
> FFS, you dare to wait this long to pardon him for something that hasn't
> been a crime for god knows how long - the man who rewrite the history of
> the 20th century for the better - you aren't worthy to kiss his boots, you
> bunch of....
>

I find the "pardon" thing offensive. There's nothing to pardon. What they
should do is apologise. Turing is the one who would have something to
pardon.


>
> Excuse me. [image: :oops:]
>
> (As you can see I even got ungrammatical, which in my case indicates
> strong passions...)
>
>
>
>
> On 25 December 2013 10:29, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Without checking your link, I hope that's Alan Turing being "forgiven".
>>
>> (I've been ranting about this on various forums. I guess I overlooked
>> this one...)
>>
>>
>> On 25 December 2013 10:25, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This comes over 60 years too 
>>> late<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/alan-turing-enigma-code-breaker-and-computer-pioneer-wins-royal-pardon.html?hp>.
>>> But at least it came.
>>>
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