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More Evidence that Jobs is a Deity: No License Plates

jobsAfter today's earlier post, when I saw this post appear in NetNewsWire with its scintillating title, I suspected that Russell Beattie was just fishing for another link from TUAW. However, after reading Russell's anecdote about Steve Jobs having no tags on his car, I grew suspicious that it might be true. Then I read the multiple comments, which all state that neither Jobs nor his wife are required to have license tags on their cars, because they "worked something out" with the local authorities. Supposedly, this is because someone kept stealing his license plates. Naughty Billy Gates, perhaps?

So let me get this straight: Not only was Jobs a phreaker in his youth, not only did he drop out of school (and then later in life offer a Stanford commencement speech about how he dropped out of school), but he also gets to speed around town willy nilly with nary a license tag on his set of wheels? He must be a minor deity.

If he's a mere human like the rest of us, then I have a proposition: If Jobs can bend the law like this with just a few words with the local authorities, shouldn't I be allowed to go ahead and strip all of my iTunes Music Store purchased tracks of their DRM without any fear of legal repercussions? I think so, too.
 
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