Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: County exclaves and fragments
Date: Oct 02, 2000 @ 20:04
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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from arif to brendan yesterday

>
>I may just have to retire now.


excuse me but you better not

we are counting on you too


some good news below also


>
>Seriously though, somebody did point to the fact that
>embassies could be block-size enclaves. well, I don't
>completely disagree with that. However, when I
>generally mention enclaves (and the enclaves that
>interest me) are ones which are integral part of a
>country (which a random territory in far of land
>definitely is not) and which shows up on a map. I
>generally do not mention an exclave if I don't see it
>in maps of the two countries involved. If it is an US
>county enclave, however, USGS maps are enough for me.
>And unfortunately the embassies are not shown as
>enclaves on USGS maps. Secondly, I believe a
>multinational treaty was signed on what exactly is the
>rights of an embassy. I believe an embassy has
>extraterritoriality, but the country which owns it
>does not own sovereignty.
>Lastly, I generally am more interested in phenomenon
>the rarer it is. And as far as I know, there are more
>than a few embassies in the world. So sue me if I am
>a bandwagoner.
>Arif Samad

you can include me in on that too

& fortunately i just realized there is no problem anyway

all the seriously real enclaves & exclaves in the world are apparently
already well known to you guys
& you could not have been distracted by this diplomatic side show anyway

as for our group plan of inventorying all the tri country points in the world
well that might have been seriously distracted by our truth seeking here on
embassy row just as it has been by our truth seeking everywhere else
but this project of ours hasnt actually suffered either
for the simple reason that ever since the pentagon did that chinese take
out in belgrade the cia must now keep careful track of the positions of
everything like that so the smart boobs will look even smarter if they ever
try that again in future

this vital info stream comprising perhaps a myriad of gis nodes for embassies
ten more myriads for consulates
& 100 myriads more for diplomatic residences
all of them subject to constant flux
will of course remain classified for a while
but we can afford to bide our time

for just as clinton liberated the gps from the pentagon
dont you think bore or gush or somebody will eventually free these gis too

& then we can just press a few buttons & voila we have the whole diplomatic
shebang as a series of extremely handsome & fascinating hologram clouds
which we can then just project drecoratively around all the world capitals
on our otherwise rather plain looking tri country point globe
which itself will have been a fait accompli & old hat by then
i trust

so in the meantime we may as well just do nothing but continue on our merry
way toward collecting & doing whatever we are going to do with our expected
totals of around 160 continental plus 160 maritime tri country point nodes
all duly cribbed or rechecked from our new gideons bible & any successors
we find

in these numbers arif they will perhaps still not qualify as numerically
rare
but i hope they will continue to be rare enough in quality to sustain your
interest
when combined with everything else unusual we all do & are here

m