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timhau said:
No functional difference, but in principle they're different.

Prayer (to quote Emo Phillips from memory): Lord, please bend the rules of the universe for my convenience.

FOTL: Alaka-ZAM! I can now break the rules of the land at my convenience.
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When you put it that way, FOTL does seem a bit crazier. The fellow praying believes that anyone who prays can have the rules bent. The FOTLer believes that he can break anyone else's rules but no one can break his rules e.g. "when I am traveling in my car I cannot be stopped for anything - in fact if you try to stop me, I will send you a bill for $10,000."
 
Another poor fellow taken in by the sovereign woo :

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sorry cant post full URL :)
 
Hey, Freemen! I just discovered a way to drive without a license plate, that apparently actually works!


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


[Steve] 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, which spoke to a former senior security official at 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.
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There ya go! Only one little problem to overcome first..... :D
 
Horatius said:
Hey, Freemen! I just discovered a way to drive without a license plate, that apparently actually works!



There ya go! Only one little problem to overcome first..... :D
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The mind reels at the amount of money Mr. Jobs saved by cleverly avoiding purchasing license plates. He really stuck it to "the Man."

I need to ask a Freeloader on the Land why the mighty scribes who pen the magical tax codes don't simply rewrite this law to prevent folks like the late Mr. Jobs from skipping out on those license plate purchases?
 
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Ladewig said:
The mind reels at the amount of money Mr. Jobs saved by cleverly avoiding purchasing license plates. He really stuck it to "the Man."

I need to ask a Freeloader on the Land why the mighty scribes who pen the magical tax codes don't simply rewrite this law to prevent folks like the late Mr. Jobs from skipping out on those license plate purchases?
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But did he really skip out on the taxes? I've never leased a car, but when you buy one, you pay the license fee up front. The law says he has 6 months to affix the license plates. For all we know, he got the license plates in the usual 6-8 weeks and never affixed them. Just turned them in with the car when he traded it out.
 
jargon buster said:
I believe Steve Jobs used to do it as well.
http://www.itwire.com/it-people-news/enterprise/50649-the-truth-about-steve-jobs-number-plate
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One does have to wonder at the economic sense here. Wouldn't the depreciation of a new car every six months cost the leasing company more than they could ever make selling "Steve Jobs old car?"
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.
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Robrob said:
One does have to wonder at the economic sense here. Wouldn't the depreciation of a new car every six months cost the leasing company more than they could ever make selling "Steve Jobs old car?"
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Considering that Jobs was going through these motions just so he could brag about not having a license plate on his car, I suspect he paid far more in lease fees than would normally be the case for a regular multi-year lease.

That's the sort of stupid **** you can do, when you've got more money than you could possibly spend.
 
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