Jaredite Civilization in Our Era Represented by New France.

[Ahab]

25 minutes ago, ksfisher said:

Well shoot, we could eliminate more of them if we tried hard enough.

Europe, Africa, and Asia are all connected, so we could count them as one.

Australia just looks like an oversized Island, so there's no need to count it.

Antarctica is inhabited by just a bunch of penguins and it's at the bottom of the map and no one pays much attention to it anyway.  No need to count it.

I think I'm down to 2 continents. 

Sure, why not.  Never mind the fact that the U.S. Postal Service and UPS and FedX and Amazon Prime (and others) would need to work out a new address system to deliver mail to people. It is all the same planet.....  right?

[Calm]

2 hours ago, Ahab said:

Sure, why not.  Never mind the fact that the U.S. Postal Service and UPS and FedX and Amazon Prime (and others) would need to work out a new address system to deliver mail to people.

Why?  Stuff is sent by country and postal codes, not continents. 

[ksfisher]

5 minutes ago, Calm said:

Why?  Stuff is sent by country and postal codes, not continents. 

123 Main St

America

 

That works for me

[The Nehor]

4 hours ago, Ahab said:

Sure, why not.  Never mind the fact that the U.S. Postal Service and UPS and FedX and Amazon Prime (and others) would need to work out a new address system to deliver mail to people. It is all the same planet.....  right?

Have you been putting the continent on stuff you mail? Do you just say it goes to Europe and expect them to guess the nation?

[Peppermint Patty]

17 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Have you been putting the continent on stuff you mail? Do you just say it goes to Europe and expect them to guess the nation?

Maybe this explains why Ahab’s relatives in England never receive the Christmas presents he’s been sending for years.

[rodheadlee]

On 9/1/2020 at 12:11 PM, pogi said:

Where have you been buddy?

No, it is clearly part of South America

It seems strange to include both North and South America (two huge land-masses more easily divided than Europe and Asia - with different cultures and languages, etc.) into one continent, but a select few (like Ahab) still prefer to use the 5 continent model for no good reason.

The bridge of the Americas is in Panama and it separates North America and South America according to the sign on the bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Americas

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[ksfisher]

17 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Have you been putting the continent on stuff you mail? Do you just say it goes to Europe and expect them to guess the nation?

I just put "Not America" for anything outside of the USA

[Ahab]

20 hours ago, Calm said:

Why?  Stuff is sent by country and postal codes, not continents. 

Hmm.  So no big piles distinguished by continent before they sort them into smaller piles distinguished by nation, and then state or province, and then city, and then street, and then house or apartment/suite or mailbox?  I was thinking that was just a part of the sorting process.

[Calm]

1 hour ago, Ahab said:

Hmm.  So no big piles distinguished by continent before they sort them into smaller piles distinguished by nation, and then state or province, and then city, and then street, and then house or apartment/suite or mailbox?  I was thinking that was just a part of the sorting process.

That would be an unnecessary extra step and slow things down.  Stuff needs to be sorted into where their next destination will be and since there are multiple destinations on any continent, to first divide into continents instead of these destinations would a waste of time, space, and money.

https://people.howstuffworks.com/usps5.htm

 

[Ahab]

4 minutes ago, Calm said:

That would be an unnecessary extra step and slow things down.  Stuff needs to be sorted into where their next destination will be and since there are multiple destinations on any continent, to first divide into continents instead of these destinations would a waste of time, space, and money.

https://people.howstuffworks.com/usps5.htm

 

A more efficient explanation would simply state that the continent is included as part of the Zip Code.  So mail that needs to go to Africa, for example, is sorted for Africa by use of the Zip Code.  That way piles of mail intended for Australia, for example, won't end up in Africa.

[The Nehor]

3 hours ago, Ahab said:

A more efficient explanation would simply state that the continent is included as part of the Zip Code.  So mail that needs to go to Africa, for example, is sorted for Africa by use of the Zip Code.  That way piles of mail intended for Australia, for example, won't end up in Africa.

It is not. Not all nations have zip codes and those who do do not generally use the same format we do. British postal codes are anywhere from 5 to 7 digits long and include letters. There is no international zip code system.

[The Nehor]

7 hours ago, ksfisher said:

I just put "Not America" for anything outside of the USA

There are some South Americans who are peeved at the junk mail you keep sending to "Not America"  

[Ahab]

44 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

It is not. Not all nations have zip codes and those who do do not generally use the same format we do. British postal codes are anywhere from 5 to 7 digits long and include letters. There is no international zip code system.

Well, okay, that idea didn't work so I suppose we're back down to just piles again.

[The Nehor]

15 minutes ago, Ahab said:

Well, okay, that idea didn't work so I suppose we're back down to just piles again.

You do realize this is a solved problem right? You can mail things to other nations right now. We are not waiting for someone to figure out how to make it work.

[Ahab]

4 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

You do realize this is a solved problem right? You can mail things to other nations right now. We are not waiting for someone to figure out how to make it work.

Yes I'm sure piles of mail are being mailed all over the place.  We're the most intelligent species in all of existence, ya know.  You do realize that, don't cha?  We may not always do things correctly or the best way to get those things done but we do at least get the things we do done somehow.

[ksfisher]

3 hours ago, The Nehor said:

There are some South Americans who are peeved at the junk mail you keep sending to "Not America"  

That's ok.  I live in a USAcentric universe.  😉

[Jracforr]

On 8/31/2020 at 1:19 AM, Robert F. Smith said:

Do you mean 2020 AD, or 2020 BC?

The year we are currently in, is 2020 so I am referring to 2020 AD being equivalent to 250 BC.

[Jracforr]

On 8/31/2020 at 2:57 PM, The Nehor said:

Why would the historical process be so obsessed with making maps look the same? How is that important?

Historical comparisons / references enable us to view past events and use them as a guide for the future, enabling us to learn from the mistakes of others.Natural Laws gave us  many similar geographic references, to which we can “Liken”  our own nation, and make adjustments to our social and economic conditions, avoiding the pitfalls of others. Eventually the Lion and Lamb will be able to live in peace, because we are no longer ignorant to the conditions which create the animosity between them.

[The Nehor]

7 hours ago, Jracforr said:

Historical comparisons / references enable us to view past events and use them as a guide for the future, enabling us to learn from the mistakes of others.Natural Laws gave us  many similar geographic references, to which we can “Liken”  our own nation, and make adjustments to our social and economic conditions, avoiding the pitfalls of others. Eventually the Lion and Lamb will be able to live in peace, because we are no longer ignorant to the conditions which create the animosity between them.

Does something being North or South of something matter? Would it injure the parallel if they were reversed. This is parallelism taken to crazy town.