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Do You Know Where You Live?

An anonymous submitter writes "Thanks to GPS, it seems quite a few people are discovering they don't live where they thought. Prior to GPS, state, county and city borders were part law, part measurement, and part guesswork. Now, they're able to go back and discover where actual borders should be, and it's making many people unhappy. Some familes in Rhode Island are finding out they may actually live in Connecticut. Each state, county and city wants as much land as possible, because it means more tax income. The people caught in the middle simply want to know where they'll send their kids for school."

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  1. One by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.

  2. /me puts on a tinfoil hat by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I can't believe that surveyors could be more than a meter or two off, which makes me think of a conspiracy theory. They want everybody to get a GPS receiver so that "suspicious individuals" (non-conforming geeks like you and I) can be tracked via satellite. It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds, I've heard of cases like this plus there's the Enemy of the State.

    Just a thought.

  3. unlike you filthy hippies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I don't live in mom's basement, but I have a suggestion. I know your mom's pimp....er...boyfriend might smack you around a little, but do yourselves a favor - walk outside.

    You'll see a bright orb - that's the sun. Go to the store and get a razor and some deodorant. DO NOT go to the local elementary school like the last time you went outside - that will violate your parole you sick bastards.

  4. Re:Border crash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the U.S. where they are tried by a military court.

    Whoops. Politics getting the better of me.

  5. Re:Border crash by Rhombus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    i think you screwed that up. Why bury those that survived the crash? You would want to bury those that died in it.

    I think you screwed that up. It's a classic trick question, like "Why can't a man living in Michigan be buried west of the Mississippi River?".

    Clever up, frood.

  6. Re:Border crash by Disco+Stu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Last time I saw that happen, I buried the survivors in my basement. They stopped screaming eventually.

  7. Re:Border crash by beebware · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, if they are Canadian* - anywhere you like as they won't be missed.
    (*=Substitute American here if you want)

  8. Re:Border crash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I never understood why this was a trick question. Its not like no one has ever been buried alive before. I think it happened in the news a couple of weeks ago.

  9. Re:Border crash by Rhombus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's a trick question because you usually try not to bury survivors.

    Honestly, I think you're putting a little too much effort into this...either that, or too little...

  10. Re:Border crash by CableModemSniper · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Originally I was going to reply to this but then I realized you were probably intentionally being stupid.

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    Why not fork?
  11. gotta love slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only on slashdot, with such a huge concentration of overly ligeral geeks who totally miss the point!

    HIHBT?

  12. Re:Borders by MarvinMouse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Since I have never truly heard the 'pure' dialect of the english language. I guess it's hard for me to say that we do or do not speak it more so.

    To us, Canadian's, our english sounds better then any other Nation's english. But that doesn't make it a more 'pure' dialect then the english nor the Americans.

    On the other hand, if we define English as from England, American as from America, Canadian as from Canada, and so on. Then by definition, the English would have to have the more 'pure' dialect of english, whether wer agree or not.

    I do know people who speak Welsh, and they consider the language alive and well. And these people are from Wales in Great Britain.

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    ~ kjrose
  13. Re:Borders by JabberWokky · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    naq lbh jnfgrq n srj frpbaqf bs lbhef znxvat gung - naq ernqvat guf

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    Evan (no reference in this message)

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    "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  14. Re:Borders by caspper69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right.

    He was a news anchor of some sort, and then he went into politics. He ran for city council, and in Cincinnati, the city council member with the most votes becomes mayor.

    All went well for him too until he went across the river to Kentucky and paid a prostitute with a personal check! It worked out for the best though.

  15. Re:Borders by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But guess what, nowadays we could take England easily.

    How many hundreds of nukes does the UK have? Might not be quite so easy.

  16. Re:Borders by bashibazouk · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    192 total warheads.

    48 are ready to be launched at any one time (sub based).

  17. Re:Borders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, that's a disturbingly accurate number. Can you quote your source?

    I was expecting something like approx 200 warheads.