Fails very hard when only UK residents can sign the petition.

Franco: Fails very hard when only UK residents can sign the petition.

This sort of falls to reason. He was "convicted" in the UK, so only UK citizens can sign the pardon. In the US, someone who is not a citizen can not sign a petition to create/adjust some law and/or conviction.

He's dead. So i am unsure what a pardon is going to do for him now?

Drollia: He's dead. So i am unsure what a pardon is going to do for him now?

Make a statement of principle that while they then thought that he was a criminal for how he was born, that he is now not someone we should scorn as a criminal in history.

Damn that's farked up

Are Qwghlmians allowed to vote?

that is the secret inside the secret: your porno machines. Day and night, fappity-fap, programmed with a menu provided by your amazing brain, narrowing down the infinite possibilities to just a few million. And if anyone tells the homosexuals about that... there goes the war.

Optical Aleutian: Are Qwghlmians allowed to vote?

As a former SIGINT weenie, and a bit of a student of the history of SIGINT, I hereby decree anyone who even obliquely mentions the Craptonomicon is to be forced to watch U-571 over, and over, and over again, until their eyes bleed from the stupidity.

dittybopper: Optical Aleutian: Are Qwghlmians allowed to vote?

As a former SIGINT weenie, and a bit of a student of the history of SIGINT, I hereby decree anyone who even obliquely mentions the Craptonomicon is to be forced to watch U-571 over, and over, and over again, until their eyes bleed from the stupidity.

You mean reading fifteen warbled pages on Van Eck Phreaking wasn't punishment enough in and of itself? Good god, man, that's harsh!

Optical Aleutian: dittybopper: Optical Aleutian: Are Qwghlmians allowed to vote?

As a former SIGINT weenie, and a bit of a student of the history of SIGINT, I hereby decree anyone who even obliquely mentions the Craptonomicon is to be forced to watch U-571 over, and over, and over again, until their eyes bleed from the stupidity.

You mean reading fifteen warbled pages on Van Eck Phreaking wasn't punishment enough in and of itself? Good god, man, that's harsh!

I did not enjoy that book while I was reading it, but after about a week or so it suddenly got a lot better.

/Get that man an editor.
//Seriously.

Because of Alan Turing I always LOL when people use a computer or the internet to espouse hate for gay people.

A hefty percentage of America, 2011:

"Thousands of special-interest extremists have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the way he was treated. Turing was dealt with under the law of the time, his treatment was compassionate and just, and ultimately would have saved his soul from eternal damnation were it not for his deeply, deeply sinful and selfish choice to commit suicide.

We are pleased to have the chance to say how satisfied we are that restorative, redemptive options are still available for those who have strayed into homosexuality. No matter what their supposed contributions to the country or so-called academic standing is, nobody should be allowed to freely endanger themselves and others with the destructive gay lifestyle. We're sorry, you should not have chosen a selfish, sinful existence and turned away from God and morality."

I remember studying so much about him while I was at the university, and I had no idea about his untimely end, when I read a dedication in a book about emergent patterns to Turing, a dedication that mentioned "his tragic end", I had to search and what I found out was really shocking! being a little gay nerd is lonely enough, that someone who made so much and that I admired was kept under so much obscurity about his life and death just pissed me off to no end, it actually still pisses me off, no matter how many apologies are out there. Still the majority of people don't know who made the foundations of that damn device they are using right now, and every single day, and what actually happened to him.

I knew he was gay, but not what they did to him.

That is so horrible :(

Mr. Pokeylope: I knew he was gay, but not what they did to him.

So you never wondered why the Apple logo was a gay pride flag shaped like an Apple with a bite taken out of it?

MrEricSir: Mr. Pokeylope: I knew he was gay, but not what they did to him.

So you never wondered why the Apple logo was a gay pride flag shaped like an Apple with a bite taken out of it?

This logo is often erroneously referred to as a tribute to Alan Turing, with the bite mark a reference to his method of suicide.[173][174] Both the designer of the logo and the company deny that there is any homage to Turing in the design of the logo.[172][175]

dittybopper: This logo is often erroneously referred to as a tribute to Alan Turing, with the bite mark a reference to his method of suicide.[173][174] Both the designer of the logo and the company deny that there is any homage to Turing in the design of the logo.[172][175]

That's what they WANT you to believe!!!

KeitelJodlKrebsBurgdorf: Because of Alan Turing I always LOL when people use a computer or the internet to espouse hate for gay people.

As if the computer would never have happened if not for Alan Turing.

Turing wasn't blinded by hubris - don't do so yourself in his defense.

MrEricSir: dittybopper: This logo is often erroneously referred to as a tribute to Alan Turing, with the bite mark a reference to his method of suicide.[173][174] Both the designer of the logo and the company deny that there is any homage to Turing in the design of the logo.[172][175]

That's what they WANT you to believe!!!

I also want to believe the Kestrel settings were stuffed down her knickers:

omegazeto: KeitelJodlKrebsBurgdorf: Because of Alan Turing I always LOL when people use a computer or the internet to espouse hate for gay people.

As if the computer would never have happened if not for Alan Turing.

Turing wasn't blinded by hubris - don't do so yourself in his defense.

While I agree, people in general are too dumb to search further, and to realize the size of the impact of his contributions to what the modern computer is today without having the title "father of the computer", so I don't mind a little publicity even if its a bit misguided, he certainly deserves it, Besides is not something far-fetched or exaggerated, he contributed greatly,

He invented the modern computer? so, my PC here is a HOMO DEVIL-MACHINE??!! Dear God! I might have the AIDS off of it!

This law still in effect today? Yes? No? ... no, I imagine no it isn't. Based on this logic, Germany should still be apologizing. Learning from the past is good, living in the past is not.

Suede head: He invented the modern computer? so, my PC here is a HOMO DEVIL-MACHINE??!! Dear God! I might have the AIDS off of it!

If you've ever had mail routed through a sendmail server... (And pretty high chances you have)

'Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley.

Allman, who is openly gay, lives in Berkeley, California with his partner of more than 30 years, Marshall Kirk McKusick. McKusick is a lead developer of BSD; the two first met in graduate school.'

"There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny."

/Find it highly amusing