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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
