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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message   
   news:52d6150a$0$52798$742ec2ed@news.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".   
      
   But the ones who were unemployed because they were say between   
   jobs, were not jailed because they were welcome to have savings that   
   they could use as a means of subsistence.   
      
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