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The times, they are a changing....

Feb 2, 2015 6:16AM PST

Last night I watched the movie The Imitation Games...it had to do with breaking the Enigma Code.....they said there were approx 159 million, million, million possibilities.

They didn't have a word for Trillion back then?

See the budget, debt of many countries...no problem finding the word "trillion".

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RE: They didn't have a word for Trillion back then?
Feb 2, 2015 6:29AM PST

They didn't have a word for Quintillion back then?

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There were no number above what one could count?
Feb 2, 2015 8:44AM PST

We live longer now so can count higher.

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Brits use slightly different
Feb 5, 2015 1:13AM PST

prefixes, I think. Rob would know.

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Just came across "thousand million',
Feb 7, 2015 3:51AM PST

which is common in real English. Happy

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(NT) I thought the enigma code was cracked by getting a machine
Feb 2, 2015 9:37AM PST
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It was
Feb 2, 2015 11:44AM PST

They had the Enigma machine, but each day the Germans changed the "key" to decipher the coded massages. They built a machine that would find the "key".

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Brief history of Enigma:
Feb 3, 2015 8:49AM PST

Developed from a commercial cipher machine, Enigma was unbreakable, or so the Nazis thought. In the mid-30s, a team of Polish cryptanalysts actually figured out the algorithm behind the commercial machine. Their research was given to Britain in the summer of 1939. Alan Turing's code breaking machine was designed to mimic as much as possible the workings of the German machines and was intended to read encrypted messages, determine the code key AND decode the message - a task that most thought impossible. It wasn't, of course. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of ULTRA (the intelligence derived from decrypted German message traffic) in helping the Allies defeat Hitler.

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If you want to see an actual Enigma machine in operation
Feb 3, 2015 11:19AM PST
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Turing was so brilliant and helped so much.
Feb 4, 2015 4:43AM PST

Think how much else he could have accomplished. But bigotry killed him. How many other gays that are killed or commit suicide and we will never see what they might have accomplished?

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Bigotry didn't kill him
Feb 5, 2015 1:02AM PST

His homosexuality killed him. No "bigot" shot, stabbed, or even suggested he should die. He killed himself, driven to it by his homosexuality. Quit blaming the innocent for the actions of others. We saw what he accomplished, his own death. Leave it to Liberals to always twist and torture the truth of a matter.

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He committed suicide because the state was
Feb 5, 2015 3:05AM PST

going to chemically castrate him. He had already been through it once and didn't want to do it again.

His security clearance had been canceled and he couldn't enter the US because of it.

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What I find interesting is that
Feb 7, 2015 4:01AM PST

castration of any kind does not stop sexual predators. Their problems go beyond hormones. A castrated heterosexual rapist e.g. can change to a screwdriver as his instrument of choice. Turing wouldn't have stopped wanting to be with men, and would have continued to arrange it. Better solution to keep him away from men: prison.

Oh, wait... Let me get back to you on that. Happy

You know my official stance on the GLBT lifestyle, of course, and my Witness brother shares it. He told me not long ago that he has two dictionaries, identical except that they were published maybe 30 years apart. They both define "homosexual" in about the same way. The older one does not contain "homophobia" but the new one does. It says, '... an irrational fear of homosexuals...' That fear we try not to succumb to, even those of us who may have harbored it before becoming Witnesses. You may have noticed that some claiming to be Christians have that fear, so that they say a gay person shouldn't be employed as a supermarket clerk, for example. Irrational. For us, there is 1 Cor 15:33 to keep us safe, even as we often talk to GLBT about Jehovah.

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(NT) Predators are about power, not sex.
Feb 7, 2015 10:02PM PST
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Thus sayeth Susan Brownmiller...
Feb 10, 2015 9:32AM PST

with whom I agree.

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Fascinating information
Feb 5, 2015 5:04AM PST