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Friday, September 11, 2009

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Posted by Sarah Mirk on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM

Today is 9/11. Eight years later, New York City is not abandoned, it turns out the FBI had intelligence that could have prevented the attacks and it looks like the 9/11 Truth site is down?! Sabotage from the highest levels!!

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Shit fer Fuel: Bellingham tries turning cow manure into bus fuel.

Brits Finally Apologize To Gay Code-Breaker: The British government admits it acted inhumanely toward a soldier who was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal.

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Illegal Tows: A PDX tow truck operator known for towing cars parked at their own houses apparently went too far.

Green Line Opens Saturday! Free rides to Clackamas Town Center and back all day long. I got a sneak peak in July.

 

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1
It's eight years since 2001.
Posted by D on September 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM · Report
2
I originally wrote "nine years later" ... obviously it's eight, so now it's changed. I got nines in my head from all this 09/09/09 stuff - thanks for the catch.
Posted by s.mirk on September 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM · Report
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"The British government admits it acted inhumanely toward a soldier"

SOLDIER???

This was no common soldier, this was Alan Turing, an absolute genius. He not only was largely responsible for breaking the Nazi codes during WWII, he laid the theoretical basis for modern computing. Britain should hang its collective head in shame for years for how he was treated.
Posted by Tom on September 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM · Report
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Word to that Tom. They should put a giant fucking statue up of Turing right in the goddamn middle of London. The man saved countless lives and was chemically castrated for his efforts.
Posted by Abusive on September 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM · Report
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There already is a statue of him, in central Manchester (where he's from). Been there for a few years now.

But the idea that the government should make special effort to apologize to him because of who he was, and ignore all the other soldiers who went through the same thing, is shameful.
Posted by Stu on September 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM · Report
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Yeah, shame on them for at least taking a step in the right direction.
Posted by tk. on September 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM · Report
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It's so goddamn sad what they did to Turing. Without him, we'd all be using Nazi typewriters.
Posted by Will Radik on September 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM · Report
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Not exactly our savior from the Nazis, Turing. A great genius, true, and a war hero, certainly.

But he had nothing to do with Lise Meitner's discovery of nuclear fission, or its consequences, which would have eliminated the Nazis, from whom she fled after der Anschluss, had not the Red Army and the western allies finished them off a few months before August 1945.

Our nuclear weapons were intended for Hitler, not Hirohito.
Posted by Jim Lee on September 11, 2009 at 2:31 PM · Report
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Turing was a genius, but the computer was an invention whose time had come. Turing had several cohorts in the field that were equally as influential, but didn't quite have the tragic tale to make a lasting impression outside of fairly geeky circles.
Posted by A CAT, probably on September 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM · Report
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Well, I think the point is that Germany lost the war in part because it persecuted some of its most important intellectuals for their private lives, and subsequently either lost them or ruined their ability to work (you might even include Heisenberg in that list). To have England turn around and do the same thing less than ten years later is, I think, what stirs people up.

As far as historical "I told you so" goes, I personally think ULTRA was essential for an Allied victory. There's nothing quite like knowing where the enemy is going to be and what they are planning to do.
Posted by atomic on September 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM · Report
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The only reason I know about any of this is because of Neal Stephenson.

Thank you Science Fiction.
Posted by kiala on September 12, 2009 at 9:49 PM · Report
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Actually, I believe that should be "sneak peek", unless you snuck up to the top of Mt. Tabor, or something else tall.
Posted by ujfoyt on September 14, 2009 at 6:03 AM · Report

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