[TML] Environmental domes

[Garry Ward]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Paul" <josephnjody at sbcglobal.net>
To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <tml at travellercentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TML] Environmental domes


> <snip>
> I would be interested in hearing what you might know of actual
> gerrymandering as it does not seem to have been a factor here. The 
> counties
You don't gerrymander a county's borders. You gerrymander the congressional 
district the county belongs to.

I.E. to make sure that the respected senator from Yahoo consistently gets re 
elected, the state legislature, being of the same party, decides that he 
will represent Alpha, Beta and Delta counties, all of whom have large K'Kree 
populations and therefore support his mandatory vegetarianism position.

Of course, the next time that the Vargr Party controls the state 
legislature, the respected senator will find the boundaries of his district 
have changed to include Alpha, Gamma and Epsilon, with giving his district a 
large Vargr populations who will promptly vote him out of office.

Gerrymandering is a hobby of Hivers.

Garry

> have very regular borders except where a river has been used to demarcate
> it. In the west the county lines go all over the place which indicates a
> need to include various population centers within the county lines to make 
> a
> convincing argument to the state.
>
> Respectfully,
> Joseph Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tml-bounces at travellercentral.com
> [mailto:tml-bounces at travellercentral.com]On Behalf Of domhanai at juno.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:00 PM
> To: tml at travellercentral.com
> Subject: Re: [TML] Environmental domes
>
>
> Joseph Paul wrote:
>>How big is a shire? Counties here (Indiana) seem to be about 400 square
>>miles or 20 miles on a side.
> With respect, Indiana county sizes are not typical; they are constrained 
> by
> decades of gerrymandering and the Northwest Ordinance. Counties west of 
> the
> Mississippi (roughly 60% of contiguous US) have counties 20 times the size
> of Indiana standard.
>
> I'm sure that, with sufficient technology, any size of territory can be
> placed under a structure ( the OTU has floating cities, for Ghu's sake!).
>
> Cougashika - fun trumps tech
>
>
>
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