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The "Horse-manure panic" was caused, at the end of the 19th century, by the "predictions" that "By the late 1800s, large cities all around the world were “drowning in horse manure”.

The times have changed, but the term "horse manure" (equivalent in this context to the more common "bullshit") remains strangely apropos...

Because you are looking back with 20/20 hindsight.

Or let's look at it this way - here we are in the 21st century and we are STILL burning fossil fuels. Energy technology has been too slow to develop.

Just burying one's head in the sand and saying, "one day technology will save us" is just magical thinking.

The "Horse-manure panic" was caused, at the end of the 19th century, by the "predictions" that "By the late 1800s, large cities all around the world were “drowning in horse manure”.

The times have changed, but the term "horse manure" (equivalent in this context to the more common "bullshit") remains strangely apropos...

By their own actions, convicted felons doing time are not part of regular society, so they don't get a say in how it should operate.

Even most criminals are part of regular society in the vast majority of their transactions. The ilk of Shawney Bean is comparatively rare.

Horses have exhaust, too.

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nope, go back to the time before cars and see the mess they lived in - https://www.historic-uk.com/Hi...

Of course. Because we all know New York City would be "greener" & healthier if every apartment burned wood for winter heat, and Manhattan had millions of horses burying its streets under ankle-deep poop daily...

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The very same characteristics are displayed by bitcoin. The most important one is increasing artificial scarcity fuelled by late comers and secondly there is no intrinsic value.

Blockchain has a future, just like the concept of joint stock companies survived the Southsea bubble.

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Money=believe. A lot of people are starting to believe in it. And the price is going. Put the CME decision about futures and we have the new gold. It is simple. Bubble or not bubble better buy then stay away. But do not be greedy, man :)

The very same characteristics are displayed by bitcoin. The most important one is increasing artificial scarcity fuelled by late comers and secondly there is no intrinsic value.

Blockchain has a future, just like the concept of joint stock companies survived the Southsea bubble.

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Prove that there was a little ice age.

Is the Thames freezing over in London, with ice thick enough to hold fairs on it, multiple times with a peak in the 17th century, evidence enough for you?

Not at all. That is fake news. Unless you can show the verified data from someone who was there and will swear on the holy Bible, I'm not going to believe it. That's silly, because the Thamnkes could never freeze over. All an old wives tale, told over and over again until it reaches legendary proportions.

See how denialism works?

by-century totals are: 15th 2, 16th 5, 17th 10, 18th 6, 19th 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames_frost_fairs http://www.historic-uk.com/His...

Well there is a great controversy and I refuse to believe that such an impossible thing ever happened. And thos people reporting the little ice age were asshole liberals anyhow.

I will continue to deny because my denial trumps any ginned up proof you can offer. All fake news put out by Ice age alarmists!

plague

Check. http://www.npr.org/sections/go...

public hangings

Check. Hangings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Executions more broadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

horse shit in the streets

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The original pyramid investment scheme takes it's name from this phenomena.

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Look back at circa 1900. Much travel and agriculture was by horse. Horse manure in city streets was a constant presence and problem, causing disease.

In fact, the educated class was predicting: “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.” (The Times)

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These days, we get: "New York and London could be underwater within DECADES: Scientists say devastating climate change will take place sooner than thought" (Daily Mail)

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Yes, that was my thought when I first read of the report, as well. (The Great Horse Manure Crisis, for those who don't know.) I don't think we'll get to the predictions of this report, because something will change drastically due to our road there. For horse poop, it was cars that didn't need to poop (well, not in the same way...) and didn't die on the streets to be left there (okay, that does happen, but they don't usually attract flies and vermin.)

I don't know what it will be for our congestion problem. Possibilities I see:
- Gas quadrupling in price
- Vastly improved public transportation
- Mass installation of fiber, making telecommuting or just satellite offices a lot more enticing
- An epidemic that wipes out half of all commuters, resetting the clock
- Discarding the idea of a 9-5 job, allow people to vary their work times and spread out commuting more
- Lowering the work week from 40 hours to 20, so people don't have to commute as much
- Average pay catching up with inflation, severely decreasing the need for a two-income home

Like this? http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/Crossword.htm

So are the Scots, unfortunately the Darien Scheme completely bankrupted the country.

In fact there have been large periods of independence and frequent resurgances, even as recently as the 70's (after oil was found) and in the 90's (after devolution). However it hasn't seen a large scale violent uprising, which is probably a result of the now heavily entwined military in the UK and the gradual erosion of our identity within the UK.

On topic however, Scotland still has it's own legal system based on jurisprudence and is less influenced by corporate interest and more by common sense than in England. How long it stays that way is another subject all together.

Remember, this is slashdot, so there's no such thing as a rhetorical question.

Hm, well it seems there are as many sites who claim the poem is about the Plague as those who claim it isn't. I suppose I could instead mention Roald Dahl's book, Danny, the Champion of the World, which singularly failed to create a generation of pheasant and salmon poachers, instead?

I did discover how to build fire balloons after reading that book though. Much fun.

Like this?
But while some members of MI5, Britain's counter-espionage service, were whiling away their spare moments in May 1944 by doing the Telegraph Crossword, they noticed that vital code-names that had been adopted to hide the mightiest sea-borne assault of all time, appeared in the crossword.

They noticed that the answer to one clue, 'One of the USA', turned out to be Utah, and another answer to a clue was Omaha. These were the names, given by the Allies, to the beaches in Normandy where the American Forces were to land on D-Day.

Another answer that appeared in that month's crossword was Mulberry. This was the name of the floating harbour that was to be towed across the Channel to accommodate the supply ships of the invasion force. Neptune another answer, referred to the code-name for the naval support for the operation.

Perhaps the most suspicious was a clue about a 'Big-Wig', to which the answer was Overlord. This was the code-name given for the entire operation!

What evidence do have that Robin Hood didn't exist? While not all of the legend is true, it is possible that he existed, in the same way it's possible Jesus existed.