The Daily Teaser — 19-6-2015: Civil Rights

OK, it’s now Friday.

Which makes it’s payday, today.

And, having done slightly less hours … ?   I’ve got — obviously — slightly less pay.

Not that I’m complaining.   I’ve enough — with the financial help I get — to be going on with, and possibly do some online shopping.

After I’ve juggled the proverbial books!

There’s also a copy of Children of the Stones I wouldn’t mind buying.

The only downside to that, of course?   Is that I’ve still not managed to pick up the external drive I’d put in for data recovery.

I’ve already put down an £80 deposit for the work: lord knows how much more that’s going to cost.

First World problems, eh … ?

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BBC News - Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing

BBC News - Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing

You know, if you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll probably be aware that I — like a few other people — think very well of Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern computer science.

Indeed, it’s also arguable that without him, the computer — as we understand it, today — wouldn’t exist.

Especially his paper, On Computable Numbers, and his World War Two work at Bletchley Park.

The fact he was gay is something that I — with many others — see as practically incidental: but, at the time, a crime.

Unfortunately, the recently created petition asking for him to be pardoned … ?

Has been thrown out by Justice Minister, Lord McNally.

Personally … ?

I’ve said this before, and will say this again …

That is no way to treat a man who’s work helped shorten WW2 by anything up to two years.