Subject: Re: Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)<br/>
Date: Sep 16, 2002 @ 21:33<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-427686224">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; --- Grant Hutchison &lt;granthutchison@b...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; I think it&#39;s one of these claims that can never be proved. The <br/>
&gt; &gt; definition <br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; of a city seems to vary between countries and I&#39;m not aware of <br/>
&gt; &gt; &gt; international standards in this respect :-(<br/>
&gt; &gt; The same thing is going on at the other end of the world: the <br/>
&gt; &gt; Argentinians describe Ushuaia as &quot;the southernmost town in the <br/>
&gt; &gt; world&quot;, while south across the Beagle Channel lies the Chilean <br/>
&gt; &gt; settlement of Puerto Williams, which the Chileans call &quot;the <br/>
&gt; &gt; southernmost town in the world&quot;.<br/>
&gt; &gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; Grant<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &quot;City&quot; is a bit of a difficult definition. Only recently Michael <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Donner<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; denounced my claim that Comines was a double-town on both sides of <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; border. I mentioned that the Belgian Comines wasn&#39;t a separate<br/>
&gt; municipality anymore, but part of the new municipality<br/>
&gt; Comines-Warneton. But just look at &quot;municipality&quot;: in France, some<br/>
&gt; municipalities only have a couple (i.e. two) inhabitants, and there <br/>
 </span></blockquote>are<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; even municipalities without inhabitants whatsoever! In the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Netherlands,<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; any municipality under 10000 inhabitants is at risk of being merged<br/>
&gt; (exceptions: for example islands, and extremely rich municipalities:<br/>
&gt; Schiermonnikoog, Vlieland, Rozendaal). In Belgium, it&#39;s the same <br/>
 </span></blockquote>story,<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; the exceptions being the municipalities that can&#39;t be merged without<br/>
&gt; serious trouble between Flemings and Walloons (Herstappe, Mesen).<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; So what is a city?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I always thought that Alert in Canada was the northernmost city of <br/>
 </span></blockquote>the<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; world. But I don&#39;t know how many people live there, let alone if <br/>
 </span></blockquote>they<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; have some sort of an elected council and a mayor...<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>hahahahaha<br/>
i didnt denounce anything you dear jerk<br/>
as anyone can see by referring to message 7099 for the full context<br/>
<br/>
i merely agreed with your own disqualification of your example<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& what is your point here anyway<br/>
& why are you always so gratuitously smarming me & others like this<br/>
hahaha<br/>
<br/>
really peter i want you & everyone here to be as big a giant <br/>
nay as great a divinity as you can possibly be<br/>
yes please inflate yourself fully<br/>
thats what bp is for<br/>
become a truly global entity<br/>
but you will never grow anywhere by impugning others<br/>
or by thinking they are denouncing your stuff<br/>
<br/>
m</div>