St. Paul and I Agree...
Taxation is not theft: "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves." -- Romans 13 The key idea implicit here, and the one that turned me on the subject of whether or not taxation is theft, is that "every soul" owes obedience to the "governing authorities." Now, if that is a debt I truly owe , then, when those authorities levy the taxes they need to do the job of governing, I owe them those taxes, and attempts to collect them certainly do not constitute acts of theft. And obviously it doesn't matter at all, from this point of view, whether or not I "signed" any sort of "social contract." (In fact, the history of political thought since the Reformation can be read as an attempt to find a secular rep...
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ReplyDeleteSo, the state for each user is in vm, which is passed with each request. The data in Vm is a small memory array, a stack array, a set of registers and some flags. A request string is parsed and the corresponding op performed in vm. Users can inspect after each instruction. Is that the idea? (Do you have a page that displays the Blue Screen of Death?)
ReplyDeleteWell, they can also run code in chunks on the server, depending on whether they choose "Run" or "Step".
DeleteBut generally, yes.