well look at the bright side
at least nothing is going to happen for 4 more years
we have far too many laws already anyway
& maybe when they find they cant add any new ones
they will start subtracting the old ones
just to dispel boredom & appear useful
but that will be real progress
i will not be too surprised if the victoria tasmania marine border turns
out to be a false front like a building on a movie set
you just walk around either side & you dont even have to pass thru or
across anything
still
given australian national maritime claims at presumably 200nm or so
it appears there would have to at least be a pair of federative tripoints
wherever this interstate facade legally ends
namely
commonwealth tasmania victoria east
somewhere east of wilsons promontory
&
commonwealth tasmania victoria west
somewhere west of king island
or
maybe they dont detain themselves over such niceties down there
for i really dont know & cant read their minds upside down
finally i am eager to keep up with you my friend
& will certainly continue to try
tho i rarely know what day it is
one of my excuses is that i am experimenting with a metric clock
10 seconds in a minute
10 minutes in an hour
10 hours in a day
10 days in a week
10 weeks in a month
10 months in a year
still 10 years in a decade tho
10 decades in a century
& 10 centuries in a millennium
thankfully
i think there is about a 3 to 1 savings in the ratio of time
but am not sure which way saves it yet
cheers
m
>
>Just because I supported Bush did not mean I did not
>actually hoped for a Bush-Lieberman presidency. That
>would have rocked. Still, I am happy that the supreme
>court stopped Gore's velvet coup. What a mess by the
>court though, especially O'Connor and Kennedy.
>
>I got the information on Victoria-Tasmania border on a
>website, which I forgot to mention earlier, but since
>updated. They do mention a Tasmania-Victoria maritime
>border, but no tripoints. Due to the shape of
>Australian provinces, only one maritime tripoint is
>possible; Tas-Vic-SA one. But I don't think it
>exists. Brendan should know more about it, being an
>Australian. He also noticed the web page before me,
>even though I did arrive at the page independently.
>
>I update my curiosities page every friday. If I do it
>before or after that point, I will mention it.
>
>By the way, Brendan sent me a map of NJ-NY border on
>Ellis Island. It seems to show the boundary at the
>coastline of the earliest incarnation of the island.
>Which is odd, as the boundary that forms is highly
>irregular and jagged. The NY portion is completely
>enclaved by NJ land. I thought they would choose the
>border at the coastline of the first landfill, which
>would also possibly create an enclaved NY portion.
>
> Arif