Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012

From	Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups	sci.logic, sci.math, comp.specification.misc, comp.theory, soc.history.science
Subject	Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012
Date	2012-05-01 19:28 +0100
Organization	albasani.net
Message-ID	<4FA02B4C.AAAD247F@btinternet.com> (permalink)
References	<953d91c3-417c-4f44-86e3-5d0883de3f43@z2g2000vba.googlegroups.com>

Cross-posted to 5 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

Jonathan Bowen wrote:

> Alan Mathison Turing [...] whose
> refusal to conform to the narrow sexual standards of the day led to
> persecution and an early death [...]

Refusal to conform = broke the law.  The law punished him for it just as
it punished thousands of others.  Why Turing gets mentioned more than
the others is a mystery to me.  One of Gordon Brown more bizarre acts
was to apologize for the way Turing was treated; and what about all the
others, Mr Brown?

[Another of Brown's bizarre acts: criticizing Cameron for having gone to
Eton.  What?  A boy is responsible for his parents' choice of school? 
Going to one of the best schools in the country is wrong?]

-- 
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by 
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

Back to comp.specification.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 Jonathan Bowen <jpbowen@gmail.com> - 2012-05-01 10:48 -0700
  Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-01 19:28 +0100
    Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 Tom <tkorna@wp.pl> - 2012-05-01 15:20 -0700
    Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 mstemper@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) - 2012-05-02 12:38 +0000
      Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 Tom <tkorna@wp.pl> - 2012-05-02 07:29 -0700
    Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-05-02 14:58 +0100
      Re: Turing`s Worlds, Oxford, UK, 23-24 June 2012 Tom <tkorna@wp.pl> - 2012-05-02 07:31 -0700

csiph-web