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I'm a programmer living in the Washington, D.C. area. My main interests are programming language design and software engineering. Hence, I've been designing a programming language for the past however-many years. Thankfully, I'm finally making headway on the compiler, after the nth rewrite.
I love this whole wiki thing. It's amazing. I've been reading C2 for about few years now, and I have to say I was floored when I first discovered it. The sheer breadth of this place is amazing. I was immediately inspired to create my own wiki, since the wiki concept is so stunningly simple. You can see the results at ViatassoWiki (http://www.viatasso.com/).
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From WithPowerComesResponsibility?:
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- The idea that WithFreedomComesResponsibility? is a fallacy. The truth is that power comes with responsibility not freedom. Take an OpenSource program, for example. You have the freedom to modify it any way you want. This freedom comes with no responsibility, though, because you dont have the power to impose your modifications upon anyone else. You do have the power to impose the changes on yourself and your machines and you have responsibility there but the responsibility comes from the power, not the freedom.
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- In programming it is the power to impose your changes on other people other programmers, business people, customers that comes with responsibility. And the greater the power, the greater the responsibility.
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- Similarly, the reason the Wiki works so well is that people realize that, though they may have the power to delete peoples writings and do other rude things, they understand that they dont have the right.
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- Politicians (and sometimes people in management who act more like politicians than like businessmen) are always saying that your freedom comes with responsibility. Theyre always saying that some people abuse their freedoms, e.g., by committing murder, and that, therefore, those freedoms have to be curtailed and the politicians need more power. But its not possible to abuse your rights. If you commit murder, what freedom are you abusing? Since when did we have a freedom to commit murder that could be used and abused? This is an example of ConceptsOutOfContext. Wasnt it really the power to kill people that was abused?
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- What the politicians really want is to shift the responsibility away from themselves and onto you to create a world where freedom comes with responsibility and therefore has to be bought from the politicians by the performance of various duties, but power their power does not come with any responsibility.
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- The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. Vigilance against what? Against the powers that would destroy those freedoms.
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- My apologies for the little diatribe here, but this freedom and responsibility PackageDeal needs to be exploded now. EdwardKiser
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