XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 1/14/2014 5:29 AM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Why didn't it apply to the poor unemployed?   
      
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