[maemo-users] N8xx ponderings

[From: Mark]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Matt Emson <memsom at interalpha.co.uk> wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, kenneth marken <kemarken at broadpark.no>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> i wish i could point you to the law text, but sadly its only in
>>> norwegian...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> To quote Dickens, "the law is an ass".
>
> Remember that Dickens was English and in British English, "Ass" is a kind of
> Donkey, where as "arse" is you "back-side", posteria, butt or whatever you
> want to call it. An Ass is a stubborn animal, which is what he was alluding
> to. (i.e. what Dickens said doesn't mean the same as the modern US English
> reading of that statement...)
>

I knew that, but it's pretty much irrelevant as to the meaning of the
statement. The point is that the law has little to do with morality or
justice.

Mark