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  2. Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!mudge
  4. From: mudge@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (MUDGE BRIAN WAYNE)
  5. Subject: Re: Imitating Turing (was: Liberty (was: (never mind)))
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.171758.16349@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
  9. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  10. References: <1992Dec21.220208.19407@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <Bznvz6.Grt@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Dec22.160317.2518@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
  11. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:17:58 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Dec22.160317.2518@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers) writes:
  15. >In <Bznvz6.Grt@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
  16. >idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
  17. >
  18. >>In article <1992Dec21.220208.19407@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> 
  19. >>arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers) writes:
  20. >
  21. >>If Alan Turing's supposed to be a role-model, I'll turn straight.
  22. >>And give up computers.  And have a sex change.
  23. >
  24. >>Gus, why on earth would anyone want to be a sociopathic chess-player
  25. >>who worked for the Government?
  26.  
  27.   Sociopathic?  Ok, he was arrested/convicted on six counts of "gross
  28. indecency", but having sex with a 19 year old is hardly sociopathic
  29. by today's standards.
  30.  
  31.                            Bri...
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