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. -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM aw...@ziskind.us Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants