The reason I bring it up is that Bitcoin seems to be about fairness. I like that, so in this vein, the lack of GPU support in the standard client could look like a sort of favoritism toward the more technically able.

When I teach my PhD course in the Austrian Theory of the Market Process I assign four required books that in my opinion students must master to make a contribution to the this literature --- Mises, Human Action; Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order; Kirzner, Competition and Entrepreneurship; and Rothbard, Man, Economy and State.

It sounds like you didn't provide the correct response to their captcha.  That's probably what "turing" refers to.