On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> 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 <lizj...@gmail.com> 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 <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
