Turing was a special case because Turing was a special case!
He was demonstrably the epitome of everything that his peers strove to be, except in this one area of his life, that at that point in history was illegal. As a result some people feel that the wasting of his life has more importance than that of any of the other victims of that unjust law.
Today homosexuality is more acceptable in his homeland than it is in most of the rest of the world.
Blanket nullification of convictions under a repealed law is a nice idea ... but whose going to pay for all the paperwork ?
That is very cynical of you. Probably accurate but cynical! :)
somewhat amusingly notes that only 3 are left in stock.
As of 5:30 CST there is only 1 left in stock ... so one must conclude that 2 people actually bought this monstrosity.
For $40K on Amazon .... oy vey!
Wow ... not even a complete fuck, but only a fucknugget ? Epic! ...
How unoriginal ... I hope Sony TV owns the rights to Newhart or someone might decide that Sony using their idea is infringing.
I'm tempted to post some sort of actionable commentary, just to see who gets sued.
Friends as well as enemies. Allies as well as adversaries.
The reason for this is that our friend today may not be our friend tomorrow. To understand the justification for this thinking you only have to look at the alignment of world powers during WWII and compare that to the alignment of world powers 20 years later.
To save you the research I'll spell it out ... in 1943 Russia & the USA were very chummy. In 1963 Russia wanted to put nukes in the USA's backyard.
A democratic government spying on its own citizens however is unconscionable; because a truly representative government can never be at odds with the people it serves.
I think the word you wanted was "persecuted"
"all acting to intimidate and obstruct traffic, and basically stir shit up"
That you believe that this is violent behavior shows your ignorance
If only we could convince the lily-livered masses to embrace and internalize it. The terrorists win a victory every time we cave to promoters of the surveillance state.
Agreed on every point you made. In point of fact, the video really doesn't show anything meaningful about the initial confrontation, so it's a case of he said/they said. In which case everyone who broke the law should be charged. But in this case the NYPD has a hard on for bikers in general and this group in particular, so they've decided unilaterally that the banker was completely justified. He broke the law, he should be charged. If a court later says his actions were reasonable under the circumstances, I'm OK with that. What I object to is the apparent assumption, on the part of certain segments of society, that if you're a biker you're automatically in the wrong.
wow ... and you don't think he would've been charged for mowing down pedestrians? You sir or madam are naive ...
clearly you're a liberal or a conservative .... see i can throw in meaningless insults too!
Or for that matter trying to "blame the victim ...? To be perfectly clear ... Nothing he did justified a bunch of thugs beating the crap out of him.
Conversely nothing the bikers actually did at the initial accident justified him running someone over and neither did his fear.
As for the "forced accident... wtf? Are you suggesting they ambushed him? deliberately caused the accident as an excuse to what ? beat up some yuppie in an SUV ?
Assault on property != assault on person
Slashed tire?
Not sure i buy the slashed tire at the initial accident site report; Have you ever driven on a flat front tire ? If one of the front tires was slashed there would've been erratic driving, chunks of rubber on the road, sparks, gouges in the asphalt none of which are evident in the video. just because it's on a police report doesn't make it true.
What did i say that gave you the impression i'm defending the actions of the bikers ...?
My point here is that the banker is just as much in the wrong and yet hasn't been charged with ANYTHING ... because "bikers" .
I wouldn't go that far. Clearly the bikers were in the wrong; but so was the banker. Running folks over 'cuz you're scared that they might attack you is not something we want people to think is ok in a civilized society.
you assume incorrectly ... I did read the reports (fact or fiction) and watched the video, did you ?
Can't you comment without throwing around personal insults ? Is that the best argument you have?
Re: After all these years.
well then, it's a good thing that that culture doesn't exist anymore, isn't it ?
As for his GrossIndecency conviction & punishment hounding him to his death ... that's debatable
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092