Subject: Re: Tripoints and Tripointers and Tripointees
Date: Jun 13, 2004 @ 14:01
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> geoh
> there are too many questions here to answer all at once
> & more mistaken assumptions about us
> with all due respect
> than may ever be corrected
>
> but i will start to just nibble around the edges & see what happens
> since you evidently want to take this further as well
>
>
> to begin with & i think most importantly
> please understand once & for all
> we only used to be something
> but are no longer anything
>
> we used to be a multipointing society
>
> this was clear & succinct in the beginning
> & somewhat discernible even for several years
>
> but our group description you refer to has actually been repeatedly
> altered beyond recognition & coherency
>
> several sets of quotation marks have even had to be added to who we are
> since very few of us indeed could claim to be what the words say we are
>
> more inserted below
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "geoh88" <geoh88@y...> wrote:
> > Starting as least as far back as message 11645 (I didn't go back
> > farther) and continuing right up to the past few days, there has
> > been discussion of proper tripoints and proper countries and
> > sovereignty and ISO diglyphs and such.
>
> perhaps pinpointing what you are talking about in each case would help
> since it is hard to respond to all this in the abstract
>
> for example
> our multipointing diglyphs are only partially based on iso digraphs
> & only when it is convenient & sensible to do so
>
> so far as we multipointers have ever been concerned
> there is nothing sacred or definitive about iso digraphs per se
> until we employ & combine them into our multipointing hieroglyphics
>
> > With all due respect, I think you're missing the forest for the
> > trees. The focus seems to be so much on the hierarchy.
>
> that has only been fortuitous & never rigorous because the hierarchies
> vary from country to country & often even within countries
>
> > By the description on the home page, the focus is on "geopolitical
> > boundary points" and "general boundary issues".
>
> this description of course is not really a focus at all
> but the opposite of a focus
> & an abandonment of focus
> & an elaborate series of excuses for no longer having a focus
>
> the focus here today is in fact whatever you want it to be
>
> > By general agreement the top level game involves "countries". This
> > is virtually universal in any of these types of games. The Travelers
> > Century Club finagles their list of 330+ to suit the tastes of the
> > travel agent who runs it, and they call them countries. The AARL has
> > the DXCC program for the ham radio operators, and they use their
> > criteria for their 330+ countries. Although the total number is very
> > close, there are close to 100 differences between the two. Why?
> > Because they are playing a different game.
> >
> > The BP game should be focused on boundaries. So, how can we use
> > boundaries to help refine our pursuit?
>
> just notice where they are & where they converge to form a multipoint
>
> nothing esoteric there really
>
> it has just gotten all mixed together with enormous irrelevancy in the
> meantime because everyone likes to yak about whatever they like
> & then they like to think they are being relevant for having done so
>
> there is great energy here in our pursuit of multidimensional realities
>
> & participation in this is naturally very attractive but misunderstood
>
> & of course there is so much that could be & has been brought to bear
> to trash this simply elegant construction in every way imaginable
>
> & your following analysis does risk diffusing & confounding it further
> as i will try to explain
>
> > There are 3 kinds of independent countries:
> > 1. landlocked
> > 2. continental coastal
> > 3. island
> >
> > Using the 191 UN members as a starting point:
>
> i believe we have also been recognizing taiwan & the holy see as
> sovereign states
> for a grand total starting point of 193
> while stumbling over what to do with western sahara
>
> > 1. 41 landlocked (pretty obvious)
> > 2. 104 continental coastal (33 in America, 70 in Africa/Eurasia,
> > plus Australia)
> > 3. 46 island (including Bahrain and Singapore which are bridged to
> > the Asian continental mainland, and also including the UKGB&NI which
> > is both connected to Europe by tunnel and has this Gibraltar thing).
> >
> > One other thing to start. By my rules each country has to be
> > completely surrounded by a boundary, which usually is composed of
> > two or more boundary segments.
>
> but sometimes boundaries are missing too
> or peculiar in other ways
>
> & facts like this can only be ignored at some expense of verisimilitude
>
> > This is again obvious for many landlocked countries. Lesotho has
> > just one segment, because it's an enclave of South Africa. Andorra
> > and Mongolia each is a "sandwich" because the two tripoints are with
> > the same neighbors. Most landlocked have 3 or more boundary segments
> > with normal different tripoints. The one complicating issue is
> > exclaves/enclaves; more on this later.
> >
> > The basic rule for continental costal countries is that their
> > boundary continues into the sea until it completes the polygon.
>
> most of these so called polygons are actually open ended in point of
> legal fact
> & only theoretical at best
>
> a very few are fully completed
>
> > Using the high seas as "everybody's land" allows for the tripoints.
> > Brazil is an easy example. The maritime boundaries with Uruguay and
> > French Guiana continue out to the 200nm tripoints, and then the
> > 200nm boundary of Brazil complete the boundary segment.
>
> this is actually a bit more complicated
>
> the sovereign maritime territory ends no more than 12nm beyond coastal
> baselines
>
> the extra 188nm of eez beyond that
> plus protruding continental shelves etc
> confer sovereign rights but dont actually extend the national
> sovereignty or territory
>
> of course we have struggled over which of these setups to recognize
> & in the end both are true & coexistent
> so take your pick of one or the other or both
>
> i think it is the messiest & most truly arguable aspect of the game
> but fortunately it can remain optional
> at least until we have exhausted dry land
>
> It also
> > objectively defines which islands are contained within "Brazil"
> > itself (like Fernando de Noronha), and which are not (Trindade and
> > Martin Vaz).
> >
> > For island countries it's the same basic process.
> >
> > What is the value here?
>
> perhaps i dont understand the question
>
> > Take Kaliningrad. It does not have an ISO 3166-1 diglyph.
>
> as mentioned
> this is irrelevant
>
> > Who cares? There are international boundaries on the continental
> > mainland of Europe and in the Baltic Sea. By using the tripoints to
> > define the polygon of Kalingingrad both wet and dry, you've got a
> > country.
>
> if the polygons were really complete
> you would have a complete exclave there
> but not a complete country
>
> the complete country is still russia
>
> & this btw is true whether its borders are complete or not
>
> > Now for those whose priority in life is making hierarchies, well
> > have at it. Put Kaliningrad as a subsidiary of Russia.
> >
> > The fact that that ltplru is a tripoint of Kaliningrad, not
> > of "Russia", means that for purposes of this game it should not be
> > ltplru; we should have own own diglyphs for the geographically
> > separate portions outside the BOUNDARIES of the parent.
>
> i dont see why such a complication is needed
>
> & besides
> if you adopt it
> then for consistency
> you would have to make up lots of new glyphs
> for everywhere else that there is an exclave tripoint
>
> even in a case like french guiana which has its own iso digraph
> the simple fact
> & most natural hexaglyph
> of its tripoint
> are brfrsr
>
> while brgfsr is tolerable & understandable & even occasionally used
> it is neither necessary nor a sensible precedent to have to follow
>
> > Focus on the geography, not the politics.
>
> of course
> but as you see
> everybody would like to change the focus at every opportunity
> & even when there really isnt any opportunity they invent one
>
> > Look, I've got a lot more to say about a lot of this, and I'll read
> > your replies to see if you're interested or not.
> >
> > Let me close by pointing back to the Subject of this message:
> > Tripoints and Tripointers and Tripointees.
> >
> > You are the Tripointers.
>
> aye but theres the rub
>
> few of us really are tripointers
> dont you see
>
> indeed it seems few of us ever leave the house
>
> & most couldnt care less what happens to this site
>
> > We all know what a tripoint is.
> > I believe you've neglected to give the proper attention to the
> > tripointees: the actual countries that are surrounded by the
> > boundaries and the tripoints.
>
> but you just said focus on the geography & not the politics
>
> so you may have to make up your mind if you are really trying to wrap
> it around the multipointing here
>
> otherwise all these questions are of course just pouring from the empty
> into the void
>
>
>
> the multidimensional realities however really do exist
> & still beckon
> & still wait
>
> & the unique opportunity bp identified for getting at them still lives
> even if its uniqueness is no longer honored on our home page
> & even if our group as such is no longer actually devoted to it