Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Bush Takes Responsibility



About federal blunders in the Katrina unrescue effort. The problem with this responsibility-taking is that I have no idea what he might mean. Is he going to resign? Offer compensation? Do public penance? Can we now blame him more openly?

I doubt it. Here are some possible definitions of responsibility that Bush might have used:

Definitions of responsibility on the Web:

* duty: the social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
* province: the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself"
* a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* In moral philosophy, the word responsibility has at least two related meanings: * The obligation to answer for actions. Often this means answering to some specified authority.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility

* Unless otherwise specified, the vendor shall be responsible for all items covered by this purchase order until delivered at the designated delivery point and the vendor shall bear all risks as to items rejected or requiring correction after notice of such rejection or correction is given.
207.104.50.39/supportserv/terms.htm

* A yacht owner/skipper is solely responsible for deciding whether or not to start or to continue to race.
mooloolaba.cyca.com.au/editorial.asp

* *. The moral and forward-looking sense of responsibility is the sense in which one is responsible for achieving (or maintaining) a good result in some matter. The idea is that one is entrusted with achieving or maintaining this outcome, and expected to both have relevant knowledge and skills, and to make a conscientious effort. However, despite one's best efforts, the result may not be achieved. For example, patients of responsible physicians may die, and the work of a responsible engineer may result in an accident because the accident was not foreseeable, it was not possible to compensate for the factors
www.unmc.edu/ethics/words.html

* To be entrusted with or assigned a duty or charge. In many instances responsibility is assumed, appropriate with one's duties. Responsibility is distinct from accountability. A supervisor can assign responsibility but cannot give away his or her accountability: the manager is ultimately responsible.
www.ucsc.edu/matman/bppwg/glossary.htm

* Condition, quality, fact, or instance of being responsible; obligation, accountability, dependability, etc.
www.ifdn.com/teacher/glossary.htm

* a virtue, is a charge, trust, or duty, for which one is responsible. To be responsible means to be correspondent or answerable, accountable to another for something, liable to be called to account, morally accountable for your actions, capable of rational conduct. The Vow of Responsibility: "I am now become responsible for all my own earth life. The spot I occupy now I have made for myself. The work I do now is as a servant of God. All that comes to me is my very own, either Light or Dark, it has been Created by me for myself by
miriams-well.org/Glossary/

* Neither the company nor anyone on its behalf shall be liable for any death, loss, injury, accident, damage to personal property (including baggage) or delay, illness strike, machinery failure, acts of God, improper documentation or any other causes beyond its control.
www.selwynsnow.com.au/bookings/terms.html

* Behavior for which a
www.rolemodeling.com/glossary.htm

* Especially "personal responsibility". Catch-cry of the powerful self-righteous Right who conveniently forget that a lot of other people were responsible for them gaining positions of power. Catherine Kingfisher (Waikato Uni) says the targets - like poor single mothers - are portrayed "as out of control, hedonistic, irresponsible, and dependent." Catherine argues that the personal responsibility dogma "mirrors discourses of colonization, in which the colonized Other is constructed as "savage" -- wild and ungoverned -- and in need of reformation. Poor single mothers, like indigenous populations, thus constitute an internal savage, and welfare reform may accordingly be analyzed in terms of colonizing/reformative
www.embassy.org.nz/encycl/r2encyc.htm

* 1. The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. 2. The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. See also accountability. (JP 1-02).
www.shelflife.hq.dla.mil/Policy_4140_27/06Definitions.htm

* Manager Contract Management and Project Accounting (CMPA)
www.careaustralia.org.au/show_vacancy_terms.asp

* Five types of responsibilities under "Extended Producer Responsibility" are denoted in the inventory:
www.ec.gc.ca/epr/en/glossary.cfm

* An obligation to perform assigned activities.
www.crfonline.org/orc/glossary/r.html

* Youth accepts and takes personal responsibility.
www.sesa.org/assets/short.html

* Being obliged to answer, as for one's actions, to an authority that may impose a penalty for failure.
www.isoeasy.org/std_cmpn/glossary.htm

* refers to a person attempting to meet the expectations others have of them.
wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/213/218150/glossary.html

* Cloud Tours, Inc. of 31-09 Newtown Ave, Long Island City, NY acts solely in its capacity as marketing agent on behalf of its suppliers such as air carriers, ground operator, cruise lines and hotels identified on documents supplied in connection with purchase of the tours described herein or other travel services.
www.cloudtours.com/terms_cond.htm

* Definition:
www.webofint.info/glossary.html

* The notion of describing problem space entities in terms of responsibilities is one of the core characteristics of OO development. The notion that publicly an entity is only responsible for knowing or doing something introduces a level of conceptual indirection that is important to OO encapsulation, implementation hiding, and DbC. It allows the "client" collaborating with an object to be protected from knowing anything about the details of how the "service" object actually fulfills its contract. (See category on what OO is all about.)
pathfinderpeople.blogs.com/hslahman/glossary_of_oomda_terms/

* literally 'response-ability', the ability to choose and act upon appropriate responses according to context, as an expression of personal power; link-theme between spiritual dimension and physical dimension
www.soul-dynamics.com/glossary

* a contract or obligation of a class. What an object knows or does. An object may fulfill responsibilities using its own methods/data or the services of a collaborator.
www.sci.csuhayward.edu/~billard/case/node11.html

* Being responsible; being accountable; having a duty.
www.emerys.com.au/glossary.htm