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   From: genew@telus.net   
      
   On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:22:12 -0800, 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.   
   >   
   >We've been scrambling ever since to just get back to what we gave up.   
      
        This gave me the amusing idea of an alt-Google getting into   
   genetic engineering in order to develop a self-driving carriage.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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