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|    Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Phi to Alan Baker    |
|    Re: Myth: The motor car is the ultimate     |
|    08 Dec 14 12:59:42    |
      From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com              On Monday, December 8, 2014 10:01:28 AM UTC-5, Alan Baker wrote:       > On 2014-12-08 08:46:35 +0000, Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher       said:       >       > > On Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:56:05 PM UTC-5, Ashton Crusher wrote:       > >> In every country in the world, the first thing people want as they       > >> come up out of the mud is personal transportation. Even in China,       > >> with cities far bigger then most, and with plenty of public       > >> transportation of one sort or another, the people still hunger for       > >> personal transportation.       > >       > > Right, and because of it they are choking in pollution and the world is       > > looking into the abyss of irreversible climate change.       > >       > > And they are sitting in endless traffic jams as well, so they are not       > > getting fast anywhere.       >       > And if they were actually "not getting fast anywhere [sic]"...       >       > ...they wouldn't be doing it.              Think of the word trolley. Have they ever been fast?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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