On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Matt Emson <mem...@interalpha.co.uk> wrote: > Mark wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, kenneth marken <kemar...@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 _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
