From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 23:51:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD5337B414 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 23:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BEFE0816B9; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:21:44 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:21:44 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brad Knowles , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Rahul Siddharthan , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Country names (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522162144.F45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <20020522114303.D26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB391E.C9C46A50@mindspring.com> <20020522155814.E45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CEB3B8C.9FD6AD0E@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CEB3B8C.9FD6AD0E@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 21 May 2002 at 23:32:44 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 21 May 2002 at 23:22:22 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> Well, "United States" is not unique. There are two sets in North >>>> America alone. >>> >>> Since you can't mean Canada, because of that whole Quebec thing, >>> you must mean the states above and below the Manson-Nixon line. >>> >>> Er, Mason-Dixon line. >> >> Nope. "The United States of Mexico". > > Continental North America. Geopolitically, they are split > between North and Central America. Where does that definition come from? I thought North America went down as far as Panama. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message