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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- Message-ID: <87832@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:01:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netnews.87832
- References: <92Sep2.183019edt.207@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: radford@cs.toronto.edu (Radford Neal)
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- In article <92Sep2.183019edt.207@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>, radford@cs (Radford Neal) writes:
- >Ahhh! But in Godel's time, there were also _territories_. Surely Alaska
- >was plenty big enough for hundreds of states?
-
- >For that matter, do states have to occupy any land?
-
- This reminds me of the suggestion that Gorbachev should have stayed on as
- the one and only citizen of the USSR, for the sake of the UN vote/veto.
- That would have been the real coup!
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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