Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frederick Williams 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: Tue, 01 May 2012 19:28:28 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4FA02B4C.AAAD247F@btinternet.com> References: <953d91c3-417c-4f44-86e3-5d0883de3f43@z2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net IwjLmVDEgHjNQos1c54YywqcXgs4zQk4hOiQ/d2mULeaEFkpA22arKXefyyGhQqRlcl5oUo7Kyx1mHngEsJX1Q== NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 18:28:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="Zv340I52McMbf0sGDYLaDDAqCHDj1Fs8ryw5Oo9XQz70ssBEwlOh5z0VdiWeV8Ly/Jop4MoMRbkN4izK0bPsyhllfjrbD3QJPz9VWeZC/dbzYLk3X1SPV1IoH3++LCY0"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Cancel-Lock: sha1:vbl++2O9vPPc331lNjAjG3TySaA= Xref: csiph.com comp.specification.misc:53 comp.theory:3816 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