Re: multiple adjectives & prosody

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:30:00 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

R J Valentine wrote:
[...]
not for personal profit -- suppose a big corporation like the folks
who inspired that flexible verb "google" were to conspire among
themselves and with others to violate my copyright (which starts out
at something like
five years in prison and a $250,000 fine), does that conspiracy make
it a felony?

You folks still distinguish felony from misdemeanour? Wow!

Wow, indeed. We got rid of that in 1967.

Conspiracy here in Magna-Carted UK consists in absolutely anything a
prosecuting authority wants it to consist in, whether in itself criminal
or not, unless there have been some long-overdue changes.

There have. There are now only three kinds of criminal conspiracy:

1. To commit a criminal offence
2. To defraud

and (I know you'll like this one)

3. To corrupt public morals or outrage public deceny.

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Don Aitken
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