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    Alan Turing apology

    And about time too.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8249792.stm

    Here's hoping for the posthumous pardon and knighthood.
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    There are some injustices that can never be apologised for. This is one example. I applaud Gordon Brown for doing this, but it has a hollow ring to it.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Indubitably, though hopefully it may highlight for some who are either scathing or sanguine about the sanctity of individual freedom just how recently in Western "civilisation" it was acceptable to physically punish those who are different from the norm.
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    Is it a positive or a negative that one knows about Turing and his ground breaking contribution to science, but has never heard of this side of the history?

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    50 years of Cultural Cringe. Amazing what it will cover up.
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    The world would be a better place if homophobic twats would just get on with their OWN lives...







    Or dropped dead.
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