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bipedalhumanoid
 Post subject: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
New postPosted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:57 am 
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Today is the 98th anniversary of Alan Turing's Birth. I can tell you about it because I have access to a Turing Machine and because none of my direct ancestors were killed in WWII... thanks, in no small part, to the efforts of Alan Turing.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Cool, I did not know I shared a birthday with him!

I also esteem him because without him there might not have been a Sid Meier's Civilization, no Ultima VII, no Elder Scrolls, no Fallout 3.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Here here.... although my Turing Machine has been crashing a bit lately. Think I need a defrag or a disk clean up or something. Anything at all that means I dont have to fork out on a bloody new Turing Machine.

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bipedalhumanoid
 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Ygern wrote:
Cool, I did not know I shared a birthday with him!


Happy Birthday Ygern :mrgreen:

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 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ygern , happy birthday to you!!

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bipedalhumanoid
 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Tulip1 wrote:
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ygern , happy birthday to you!!


3 people I know share a birthday with Alan Turing. What is it about September? :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Happy Birthday Ygern – It’s my daughter’s birthday today as well (The one that’s a puppy).
and to poor Alan Turing a pity he wasn't born a few years later.

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chemicals
 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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mkaobrih wrote:
and to poor Alan Turing a pity he wasn't born a few years later.


What so he was not in Blechly park to decipher the German U boat codes ???
are you a secret Nazi ? :D

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bipedalhumanoid
 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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chemicals wrote:
mkaobrih wrote:
and to poor Alan Turing a pity he wasn't born a few years later.


What so he was not in Blechly park to decipher the German U boat codes ???
are you a secret Nazi ? :D


He contributed so much to help bring down an oppressive and bigotted regime and it was the bigotry and oppression he faced in his own country that drove him to end his life.

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mkaobrih
 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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chemicals wrote:
What so he was not in Blechly park to decipher the German U boat codes ???
are you a secret Nazi ? :D
I’m referring to the chemical castration, growing breasts and poison apple side to Mr Turing - a very tortured individual and not to his achievements in beating the Nazi’s although surely Nazi type repression killed him.

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 Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Alan Turing
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Happy Birthday Ygern :)
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