[Vision2020] And now for something completely different . . .

Fri Apr 29 21:30:05 PDT 2016

Jobs was infamous for his penchant for parking in the handicapped slot in
the parking lot and for driving a silver Mercedes SL55 AMG with a blank
license plate. How did he do it? Did he just pay the fine every time he was
caught? Was he granted a special leave by the California government to
indulge himself? Surely, *surely*, he didn’t change cars every few months
just to go without a license plate, right?

Right?

Yeah, that’s exactly what he did, according to this story by ITWire
<http://www.itwire.com/it-people-news/enterprise/50649-the-truth-about-steve-jobs-number-plate>,
which spoke to a former senior security official at Apple
<https://index.co/company/Apple?utm_source=thenextweb.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hover-Apple>,
Jon
Callas, about Jobs’ numberless numberplate:

Steve (or someone close to him) spotted a loophole in the California
vehicle laws.  Anyone with a brand new car had a maximum of six months to
affix the issued number plate to the vehicle.

So Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always
change cars during the sixth month of the lease, exchanging one silver
Mercedes SL55 AMG for another identical one.  At no time would he ever be
in a car as old as six months; and thus there was no legal requirement to
have the number plates fitted.

All that for a license plate! How about that, huh?

As to why he went to all this effort in the first place, Walter
Isaacson noted in his biography of the Apple co-founder that Jobs may have
wanted a numberless license plate to prevent himself from being
tracked—but when
asked in interviews after the book launched
<http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/23/tech/innovation/60-minutes-steve-jobs/index.html>,
the author has not clarified this statement.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/27/mystery-solved-why-steve-jobs-car-never-had-a-license-plate/#gref

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com> wrote:

> Pretty sure Steve Jobs never licensed any of his cars, either, but I don't
> think he ran a bible verse for "plates".
>
> DC
>
> On Apr 29, 2016, at 17:24, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Courtesy of *Jalopnik* (a news and opinion website about cars, the
> automotive industry, racing, transportation, technology, motorcycles and
> much more) at:
>
>
> http://jalopnik.com/kook-suing-idaho-dot-because-ten-commandments-dont-say-1773549426?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Kook Suing Idaho DOT Because Ten Commandments Don't Say He Needs A License
> <http://jalopnik.com/kook-suing-idaho-dot-because-ten-commandments-dont-say-1773549426>
>
> Peter Jensen of Athol, Idaho has very cleverly noticed that the Ten
> Commandments hardly mention *anything *about needing a driver’s license
> to operate a car. According to TV station KREM
> <http://www.krem.com/news/local/kootenai-county/athol-man-sues-state-employee-citing-law-of-moses/149943451>,
> Jensen only recognizes the Ten Commandments as law, so as a result, he has
> no real license plate on his unregistered Ford Expedition. That’s also why
> he’s suing the Idaho Transportation Department for $5.6 million dollars.
>
> It’s actually more specific than that; he’s suing the particular employee
> that had to send him the letter reminding him that according to the state
> of Idaho, all his driving privileges were revoked, and he wants that $5.6
> million in gold and silver coins, because he thinks normal U.S. currency is
> “a fiction.”
>
> Jensen notes that the Bible has nothing to say about licensing a car or
> driving, and goes on to say
> <http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/idaho/man-sues-itd-employee-cites-mosaic-law/154640085>
>  that
>
> “I have a constitutional right to drive freely without restriction, so I
> shouldn’t have to get a driver’s license, vehicle registration, so forth.”
>
> Which is a bit strange, since I’m not sure how confident the Founding
> Fathers were that Cugnot’s 1769 steam v
> <http://jalopnik.com/5923086/the-usa-could-have-had-a-tank-to-fight-the-revolutionary-war#_ga=1.105018571.939172841.1359888224>ehicle
> would catch on like it did, but you know, whatever.
>
> Jensen’s Expedition currently sports a license plate that reads
>
> *SET-APART TO YAHUWEH (Zecharia 14:20)*
>
> I looked up Zecharia 14:20 <http://biblehub.com/zechariah/14-20.htm>, and
> here’s what it says:
>
> *In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO
> THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before
> the altar.*
>
> Ohhhhhhhh, I see what he’s saying. That all makes *total* sense now. Of
> course he doesn’t have to license his car or pay registration or get a
> driver’s license or anything like that, because it says that the bells of
> the horses will have that holiness unto the Lord, and the pots will, um, be
> like, um, altar bowls, and, he, uh, um. Shit. Wait, this all seemed so
> clear like a minute ago.
>
> Did I mention the bells? And the pots?
>
> Jensen says he wants to “identify [himself] as being separate from the
> laws of this nation,” and instead only lives by the Mosaic Law as set in
> the Bible.
>
> This guy, of course, is a loon, and even if he feels that government laws “are
> really fiction, so I didn’t feel accountable to them,”
> <http://www.krem.com/news/local/kootenai-county/athol-man-sues-state-employee-citing-law-of-moses/149943451> he
> lives in the state of Idaho, whether he admits it or not. Also, he’s not
> even correct Biblically, since the Book of Galifracians 32:7 clearly states
>
> When the coming of the time of carriages compelled to motion by fire is at
> hand, take unto the tents of the Department of Transportation the gold
> coins they demand, and wait ye in lines until thy eyes cry tears, and thy
> rend thou garments from rage and haste.
>
> Also, blessed are the carriages that soothe their heat with aether, and
> that place their iron fire-barrels at the rear, causing the rearmost wheels
> to propel.
>
>
> That seems pretty clear to me. Pay up, dummy.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
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