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Alan Turing - My Favourite Scientist

NordlichReiter says...

Touched.. by tragedy?

What, a fucking, understatement. Given a choice between imprisonment or hormonal treatment? As if they can.. cure the gay away. Touched by tragedy doesn't even begin to describe the kind of stupidity exhibited in this case, by society, no less.


In January 1952, Turing met Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter's house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing's house again, and apparently spent the night there.[48]

After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time,[49] and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, the same crime for which Oscar Wilde had been convicted more than fifty years earlier.[50]

Turing was given a choice between imprisonment or probation conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. He accepted chemical castration via oestrogen hormone injections.[51]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_indecency


On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead; he had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and although the apple was not tested for cyanide,[54] it is speculated that this was the means by which a fatal dose was delivered. An inquest determined that he had committed suicide, and he was cremated at Woking Crematorium on 12 June 1954.[55] Turing's mother argued strenuously that the ingestion was accidental, caused by her son's careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Biographer Andrew Hodges suggests that Turing may have killed himself in an ambiguous way quite deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability.[56] Others suggest that Turing was re-enacting a scene from the 1937 film Snow White, his favourite fairy tale, pointing out that he took "an especially keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Witch immerses her apple in the poisonous brew."[57]

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RadHazG says...

Poor poor people. Wonder how they felt when it released and to say its done badly... is an incredible understatement. Hollywood isn't liberal, it just knows a crap movie when they see it.

Don't suppose this deserves to be in the * Terrible, though that's kind of a knee jerk reaction when I see inanity like this or just Hannity or Faux News in general.

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mindbrain says...

A bit annoying? Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.
Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.Understatement.
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kronosposeidon says...

@blankfist, even Ken Salazar admitted that the Dept. of the Interior was lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities. Just doing a simple Google search yielded these articles, among many, many others:

- Lax Oil Industry Oversight? That's an Understatement

- Legal Briefing: Federal Agency Sued for Lax Oversight in BP Spill

- As administration official admits lax oversight, scientists watching where Gulf oil spill headed next

I'm certainly not blaming it all on the federal government (even though most of my right wing co-workers are already saying its somehow Obama's fault). The majority of guilt lays with BP, Halliburton, and Transocean. But if our government is going to do a half-assed job of monitoring these operations, then it has to shoulder some of the blame too.

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choggie says...

what is a closeted Christian lann??....you gotta understand ...i ain't form the deep south, but was under the understatement that they all were out....a closeted christian could be a freak waiting to pop his or her cherry....land that one ya vixen, LAST CHANCE OR FIRST IN A SERIES!!!

Lt. Gen. (ret) Dallaire Speaking about Rwanda

bcglorf says...

His book should be required reading in every high school classroom, forever. When he says that the world pulled their troops out of Rwanda it is a gross understatement. Belgium, that was providing the bulk of the forces there not only pulled their forces out, but pressed charges against their returning officers from Rwanda for 'putting their men in harms way'. Belgium had lost 10 soldiers after all, so the Belgians were understandably angry and outraged by their country's tragic and unacceptable loss. Meanwhile 800,000 Rwandan's where being murdered by the same crew that killed the Belgian soldiers.

The lessons about geopolitical apathy to be learned from Dallaire's book are vitally important. Evil has many faces and he saw them all in Rwanda.

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brycewi19 says...

^"Little" is an understatement!

As for your deep-rooted denial, I'm sure it all has to do with your relationship with your father. (It always does.)

Call my receptionist and she'll set you up with an appointment. (Advice ain't free these days!)

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Does the Media have a Double Standard on Israel?

NinjaInHeat says...

Being Israeli, I felt compelled to register just to comment on this, it made me feel a bit warm inside, the same kind of warmth I imagine many sifters here get when they watch any of the bucket-loads of liberal media/politics videos posted here every day.
What I want to address here is the issue of racism and hypocrisy, not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I can imagine what this guy's videos showed, I've lived in Jerusalem and the surrounding area all my life, I've went through the Israeli education system and I served in the military. Saying Israelis are racist and hypocritical (as a generalization obviously) would be an understatement. You see Israel has its own special brand of patriotism, so much more powerful and blind than any other I'm aware of. If, as liberal Americans, you find yourselves sick and tired of the "America can do no wrong" mentality, the sort of thinking that drives republican politics, that fuels right-wing arguments about the merits of torture and military action, that gives the multitude of liberal comedians their daily material, let me tell you, you haven't seen shit. You're sick and tired of religious bigotry? again, you haven't seen shit.
If you're the kind of people that can't possibly comprehend how it is possible for gay marriage or abortions to be forbidden by law, how would you feel living in a country where marriage outside one's religion is forbidden by law? How would you feel living in a country that is by definition Jewish? where by just being born to a Jewish mother you are automatically entitled to citizenship?

I don't want to ramble on for too long, just to be clear again, I'm not talking about the conflict in the middle east, I try to be as apolitical as possible, I honestly don't have enough faith in my fellow man to hope for a better world in my life time, I don't doubt the Arab side has its fair share of racism. I wholeheartedly agree with this guy's comment about a double standard on the issue of Israel, again, being one, I constantly feel like I'm drowning in the all powerful Jewish/Israeli propaganda machine, surrounded by people who have lost touch with reality. The irony is that you see the phenomenon most distinctively on the hoards of Jewish Americans that swarm this city on a daily basis.

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