FINRA Issues An Extraordinary and Cynical Release 
(BrokeAndBroker.com Blog)

http://www.brokeandbroker.com/4689/finra-extraordinary-cooperation/

The way I understand it, Moses went up a mountain and God gave him two stone tablets consisting of Ten Commandments. On those two stones was the Law. Do this. Don't do that. Amazingly, those few words seemed to work and folks lived their lives by figuring out which of the 10 do's and don'ts they had (or had not) broken. Many years later, someone apparently had far too much time on his hands and figured we ought to tinker with the majestic simplicity of the whole two tablets and ten commandments thing. That resulted in the promulgation of Deuteronomy, which means the "Second Law," or, as modern lawyers would likely phrase it, the "Restatement of Law." What previously took two stones and 10 commandments, mushrooms in Deuteronomy in the form of Chapters 12 - 26. In offering a more up-to-date guidance as to the Ten Commandments, we expanded to 15 chapters. Clearly, Deuteronomy marks the beginning of bureaucracy. Over the ensuing millennia, we have expanded upon the original two stone tablets and gone way beyond the restatement of Deuteronomy. Title 18 of the United States Code is man's effort to promulgate a criminal code and the attendant criminal rules of procedure. At last glance, Title 18 ended with Chapter 601, and with Section 6005. Anyone have any idea how many stone tablets it would take to enter 6005 sections of law?