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
On 12/27/2013 5:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:31 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com
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
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,
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
On 12/27/2013 5:42 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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!
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:47 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com 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
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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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
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
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