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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:29 PM
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Alan Turing sticky! YES! One of my heroes.
He kicked Nazi butt with Math. With Math! He invented computers. Badass.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:34 PM
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1. glad you liked it
Edited on Fri Aug-19-11 09:35 PM by dsc
He is also a hero of mine for similar reasons. When I found out he was gay it was like a three fer.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:36 PM
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2.  A great mind. A gay mind.
Good thing Alan was on our side.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:38 PM
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3. And then he was tortured into suicide because he was gay. Really patheric.
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Scruffy1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:44 PM
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4. RIP. His death was too tragic for words.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 09:59 PM
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5. Turing is one of the folks I dedicated my dissertation to....
Just because.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-11 12:15 AM
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6. About the only good thing about writing a dissertation (apart from
finishing it), is that you can dedicate to pretty much whomever you please. :thumbsup:
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