XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/14/2014 1:05 AM, David Johnston wrote:   
   > On 1/14/2014 1:48 AM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message   
   >> news:52d4e4be$0$52802$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   >>> On 1/13/2014 10:01 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>> In article , Robert Bannister   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>> On 14/01/2014 3:57 am, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>> In article , lal_truckee   
   >>>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 1/13/14 10:06 AM, David DeLaney wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 2014-01-13, lal_truckee  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> On 1/11/14 6:35 PM, 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.  One   
   > could be idle if one had the means to be idle.   
   >   
   > http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/5/83/contents   
   >   
   And those kinds of people were not considered to be "unemployed".   
      
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