Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:47 PM, LizR wrote: > Turing is just a particularly vivid case - a "poster boy" - for the > injustice suffered by I believe something like 50,000 people (I guess Oscar > Wilde was an earlier one). Yes. Sometimes our species is really nothing to write home about. > As Br

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/27/2013 5:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR 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 th

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
Turing is just a particularly vivid case - a "poster boy" - for the injustice suffered by I believe something like 50,000 people (I guess Oscar Wilde was an earlier one). As Brent pointed out, Turing may not have killed himself like Snow White biting a poisoned apple, as per the popular image, aft

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread meekerdb
On 12/27/2013 5:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR mailto: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)

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR 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

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-24 Thread LizR
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 lo

Re: It's about time!

2013-12-24 Thread LizR
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 wrote: > > > This comes over 60 years too > late

It's about time!

2013-12-24 Thread meekerdb
This comes over 60 years too late . But at least it came. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

It's about time.

1999-08-31 Thread Higgo James
Jacques applies a classical common-sense view of time to a problem to which it does not apply. Why assume that everyone's time lines are the same? In fact, time is subjective. I can be 'very old' and yet find myself in the company of youngsters - we nevertheless appear to each other as of