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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   David Johnston  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
   >> Dimensional Traveler  wrote   
   >>> Your Name wrote   
   >>>> Robert Bannister  wrote   
   >>>>> Your Name wrote   
   >>>>>> lal_truckee  wrote   
   >>>>>>> David DeLaney wrote   
   >>>>>>>> lal_truckee  wrote   
   >>>>>>>>> Joy Beeson wrote   
      
   >>>>>>>>>> eliminating the horse   
      
   >>>>>>>>> resulted in the demise of a true, practical,   
   >>>>>>>>> and widely available self-driving carriage.   
      
   >>>>>>>> Though you have to admit that the pollution   
   >>>>>>>> issue was more immediate and terrible than   
   >>>>>>>> today's cars and trains and trucks produce.   
      
   >>>>>>> Might be easier to teach a horse to use   
   >>>>>>> the toilet than to teach a car to drive.   
      
   >>>>>> Plus the waste product from a horse has an actual use   
   >>>>>> (in gardening) whereas waste product from cars doesn't.   
      
   >>>>> But at the height of horse-drawn traffic, there was far more   
   >>>>> than could be cleared up, and in 19th century London, there   
   >>>>> wasn't much room for growing rhubarb or roses.   
      
   >>>> It would give all the unemployed people something to do.  ;-)   
      
   >>> Being unemployed in London at the time was a jail-able offense.   
      
   >> Bullshit.   
      
   > Technically the offense was "not having a means of subsistence.   
      
   That never applied to the unemployed.   
      
   > One could be idle if one had the means to be idle.   
      
   And also if you were unemployed.   
      
   > http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/5/83/contents   
      
   Doesn't say anything like what he claimed.   
      
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