So (assuming that he worked this out himself or was involved in it rather than it being something someone at Apple came up with to keep him out of trouble), this isn't so much him saying "I don't care about your rules" as it was him saying "screw your rules, if I don't like them I'll find a way around them".

Kind of figures in that it's Jobs saying "I'm smarter than you" more than him saying "I don't give a..." (which given his focus on the way things were perceived is pretty unlikely).

Dumb law though. If I had to get a new license plate for my car I could have it printed at on the car in under an hour from leaving my seat right now (and no, I'm not sat in a garage, I'm in the office). Why anyone thinks it might might be reasonable to allow six months (with all the attendant issues that come with having the car unmarked for that period) is beyond me.