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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> There is often more of both work and play than the time available
for each.
> Therefore, time of both sorts must needs be used as productively as
possible.
thanx lowell
i will remember your principled imperative
& particularly your extremism about it
bravo
& please know also that in my world
as in my view of bp also
there is all the time in the world for doing anything & everything
anyone might really desire
so both imperativism & extremism are highly optional here you see
tho as you know
i am rather in love with extremism myself too
>
> I had anticipated that the pending matters at LATXUS probably
involved more than
> the jetties and might include the question of wrap-around.
>
> Just off the top of my head, I would lean rather strongly against
any
> wrap-around on the historic theory that sovereign territorial seas
were
> generated by the range of cannon fire from land. If one
sovereignty had
> longer-range cannon than its neighbor, that would still not give it
the right to
> fire across the neighbor's sovereign waters to reach any waters
beyond. Thus,
> no wrap-arounds! I could be wrong.
>
> I will look forward to researching the issue as it relates to
LATXUS.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:35 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Finding MENHUS
>
>
> ok i dont see how you can use your time better than by enjoying it
> tho i do appreciate you are oriented toward work & productivity
> even if our multipointing itself is oriented toward pure play
> so i will try in future to spare you from as much otherwise useless
> enjoyment as possible
>
> & to begin with please be aware that our crazy bp search engine has
> perked up considerably in recent days
> so for any newcomer or oldtimer to be sure of exhausting any search
> term
> like menhus or latxus or whatever
> before proceeding further
> now requires fewer than a dozen pumps of our crazy search engine
>
> but anyway about latxus
> this as you probably know is at or near one of the 5 points where
the
> 3nm & 9nm regimes meet
> 4 of which involve federal waters tripoints
>
> previously
> for the one convergency which produces no tripoint
> namely in the dry tortugas
> you have indicated how there is no overlapping or wraparound of the
> smaller terminal arc by the larger one
> but that the 2 regimes separate crisply at right angles to each
other
>
> & we have also previously found an apparent proof in the bible that
a
> 1953 alfl compact prevents the terminal florida arc from wrapping
> around the terminal alabama arc by specifying a peculiar but
> evidently effective terminal alfl loxodrome
> running 1 minute west of due south into the gulf of mexico to the
> seaward limit of each respective state
>
> & the problems of prusvin & prusvis are largely confined to figuring
> out how to balance the effects of the 9nm regime of puerto rico with
> those of the 3nm regime of the virgin islands
>
> probably by first giving the 3nm full effect
> & then wrapping the 9nm around it as much as possible
>
> tho i could imagine giving them a proportional effect too
> &or even cutting a clean meridional division between them
> or some other solution
>
> but i assume this remains undone & so is only putative in any case
> & therefore maybe not so pressing or problematic as the others
>
>
> the most problematic of the 5 points however appears to be latxus
> not only because there doesnt seem to be any provision in place for
> preventing texas from wrapping around louisiana
> but also because the right bank of the sabine extends so much
farther
> out to sea than does the left bank that the arc overlap if any wont
> be merely threefold but maybe about tenfold in its effect
> & could potentially wrap texas waters way more than just an extra
6nm
> around louisiana waters
> & thus project latxus far to the east of the sabine pass
>
> & since you have already shown a map that has the louisiana 3nm arcs
> so nicely filled in all the way to the sabine pass
> determining latxus now seems to me to be just a matter of figuring
> out exactly what stops the swing of the easternmost texas 9nm arc
> & exactly where it does so
>
> & if you can figure that one out
> then please do proceed by all means directly to prusvin & prusvis
> to pin down the entire ensemble