On Feb 23, 2010, at 8:34 AM, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:
Larry Sheldon wrote (on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:28:03AM -0600):
On 2/23/2010 4:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
Maybe politicians should just keep their nose out of things that they can't understand. Email addresses aren't phone numbers.
It occurs to me that maybe there is a reason why political conservatives get so excited about "minor, trivial" erosions of sanity; why they worry about "where this might lead"....
It's been mentioned--why not "portable" street addresses. Fire departments will just have to adapt.
If you want an example of just what would result, take a trip to Tokyo, where house numbers were assigned in the order that building permits were issued, and you need *extremely* detailed directions.
Seoul is a good example of this as well, but, no-one is even sure that building age is actually determinant in Seoul. Most of the Koreans I was working with swear that addresses are assigned by a random number generator without duplicate detection. Owen