Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: best available resolution
Date: Sep 22, 2003 @ 05:17
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
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> & just to finally close out the census of the 193__________________________________
> countries
> & of the world class continental multipoints they
> combine to produce
> & without prejudice as to the many probable futures
> that might occur
> but subject as always to changing circumstances
> whenever they do change
> i think it is already fairly clear
> even without benefit of brownlie back in hand yet
> that absent any proof of a true quadrijunction
> proof which we know is itself not a present
> possibility in any case
> bwnazmzw must be presumed to be not 1 but 2 points
> even despite the fact that it isnt clear which 2
> points these are
> hahaha
> really
>
> & thus i believe we can in good conscience conclude
> that there are not
> just 159 but fully 160 world class continental
> multipoints on earth
> today
> all of them tripoints for now
> whether actual or presumptive
> & only rarely & momentarily if ever does their count
> fall to 159
> when
> however improbably
> 2 of the more mobile of these 160 tripoints
> chance to converge & join to form the quadripoint
> bwnazmzw
> but break apart immediately into just very close
> tripoints again
> hahaha
>
> think of it as a tripoint mating dance
>
> & i will get into the particulars of it as soon as
> brownlie does arrive
>
> but anyway for now
> if we are still looking for the worlds shortest
> border
> well then lets also remember that it stands a very
> good chance of being
> right now right here in the midst of this thalweggy
> mating dance
>
> but we just dont know its name or its length yet
> nor does it seem likely that we ever will
>
> i kid you not
>
> this is not a hans island or bwnazmzw pipe dream
>
> this is actual present legal fact
> or at least how it looks from here
> until anyone is kind enough to correct me
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
> <barbaria_longa@h...>
> wrote:
> > on further reflection
> > i dont want to have to maintain that either
> western sahara or
> > palestine are real countries yet
> > since lets face it
> > they arent
> > but are still de facto parts of morocco & israel
> respectively
> > if anything
> >
> > or does anyone seriously disagree
> >
> >
> > so i would gladly sacrifice all the supposed eh &
> ps tripoints
> > which simply means dzehma alone would bite the
> dust
> > of all the tripoints we have previously identified
> as world class
> >
> > & dzehmr would become dzmamr
> > for the time being at least
> >
> > btw thats ma as in maroc for morocco
> > rather than mo
> > which is macau
> > oops
> >
> > but anyway the country count can thus hold steady
> & credible at
> > 193
> >
> > & the world class multipoint count would decrease
> by 1
> > from 160 or 161
> > to 159 to 160
> > depending as usual only on the resolution of
> bwnazmzw
> > into 1 or 2 points
> > & of course pending all other future developments
> too
> >
> >
> > ahhh that feels much better already
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
> > <barbaria_longa@h...> wrote:
> > > thanx kevin
> > > that is a very interesting & telling comparison
> > >
> > > & it reminds me that since we have been counting
> both of the
> > > western sahara eh tripoints among our global
> total of 160 or
> > 161
> > > continental multipoints
> > > i think since even before eh became a glyph
> > > we have actually already acknowledged western
> sahara as the
> > > 194th country rather than just a part of morocco
> > > willy nilly & ipso facto
> > > even if i hadnt said so in message 1086 nor
> grant in 2270 &
> > > 11495 etc
> > >
> > > so unless we want to recount or retract one of
> those
> > > & reconsider eh as truly part of mo
> > > we really need to acknowledge western sahara as
> a country
> > >
> > > & if we do regard eh as number 194
> > > then it would seem all too easy & right to come
> into complete
> > > alignment with iso too
> > > & regard palestine ps as number 195
> > >
> > > but then there would ensue a premature search
> for its tripoints
> > >
> > > i mean other than the most presumptive egilps
> tripoint at gaza
> > >
> > > which at least would thus become a full peer
> with the dzehmo
> > > tripoint we have already acknowledged
> > > if indeed even egilps can really be counted upon
> either
> > > in view of anticipated land swaps etc etc etc
> > >
> > > so of course here we are really in the future if
> anywhere
> > > rather than in the present any more at all
> > > since palestine is de facto still an unknown
> part of israel
> > > or so it seems to me
> > >
> > > but the truth for now is we ourselves already
> have a messy self
> > > contradiction over western sahara
> > > whether the united nations or iso or palestine
> or anyone can
> > > help us or not
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin
> Meynell
> > > <kevin@m...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >does it equal our same 193 entities
> > > >
> > > > According to the UN website, there are only
> 191 member
> > > nations. This
> > > > tallies with the ISO 3166-1 total of 195 if
> you include the Holy
> > > See,
> > > > Taiwan, Western Sahara and Palestine.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Kevin Meynell
>
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