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
