Can you recommend any C programming books?

[Emmanuel Delahaye]

Skarmander a écrit :

"Felony" is not exclusively US, but in general English it means "pretty
serious crime" (if you don't look too closely). It's just too strong a
term here. I'm not trying to get a language flame going here, mind you.
If you feel comfortable substituting "crime" and think I'm making too
sensitive a distinction, then by all means ignore it.

From what my limited skill in French can gather, "félonie" is certainly
not what he meant, since that doesn't refer to modern crime at all, but
to the original meaning of "feudal rebellion/treason". Even if there
were some cross-cultural/linguistic mixup, I'd still point out that the
word doesn't seem to mean quite what he wanted it to mean in English.

I meant a something more serious that an offence. If I understand
American-English correctly, the graduation is

- Offence (degradation, drunk-driving)
- Felony (extorsion, thieft)
- Crime (murder, rape)

 

[Keith Thompson]

Skarmander a écrit : [...]

From what my limited skill in French can gather, "félonie" is
certainly not what he meant, since that doesn't refer to modern
crime at all, but to the original meaning of "feudal
rebellion/treason". Even if there were some
cross-cultural/linguistic mixup, I'd still point out that the word
doesn't seem to mean quite what he wanted it to mean in English.

I meant a something more serious that an offence. If I understand
American-English correctly, the graduation is

- Offence (degradation, drunk-driving)
- Felony (extorsion, thieft)
- Crime (murder, rape)

In US law, felonies are the most serious crimes, typically punished by
several years or more in prison. The next step below that is a
misdemeanor, typically punished by 6 months or so in jail. Both
felonies and misdemeanors are considered crimes.

Something like speeding or running a red light is usually called a
violation, punished by a modest fine.

 

[Mabden]

Oh, the other 16 x 365 is for my other work.

Yeah, right! I'm sure you would have slipped in a little nap here and
there! ;-)

 

[Walter Roberson]

[OT]

Yeah, right! I'm sure you would have slipped in a little nap here and
there! ;-)

I integrate information and problem-solve in my sleep. It isn't
exactly what you would call "restful", but the doctor says it is not
unexpected considering my work-load.

 

[Jordan Abel]

Skarmander a écrit : [...]

From what my limited skill in French can gather, "félonie" is
certainly not what he meant, since that doesn't refer to modern
crime at all, but to the original meaning of "feudal
rebellion/treason". Even if there were some
cross-cultural/linguistic mixup, I'd still point out that the word
doesn't seem to mean quite what he wanted it to mean in English.

I meant a something more serious that an offence. If I understand
American-English correctly, the graduation is

- Offence (degradation, drunk-driving)
- Felony (extorsion, thieft)
- Crime (murder, rape)

In US law, felonies are the most serious crimes, typically
punished by several years or more in prison. The next step below
that is a misdemeanor, typically punished by 6 months or so in
jail. Both felonies and misdemeanors are considered crimes.

What he may be thinking of are the "Classes" - my limited
understanding from watching many hours of Law&Order and NYPD Blue is
that both felonies and misdemeanors are divided into classes, from A
to some other letter, with A being the most severe [and with any
felony more severe than any misdemeanor] and other letters
progressively less severe.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

"Felony" is not exclusively US, but in general English it means "pretty
serious crime" (if you don't look too closely). It's just too strong a
term here.

Undoubtedly the Recording Ind Ass of America would disagree.....

From what my limited skill in French can gather, "félonie" is certainly
not what he meant,

For all a I know ED has as much clue about the niceties of american
law as I do - ie its gleaned from CSI, NPYD Blue and The Shield. In
such programmes they rarely define Felony, they merely accuse everyone
of it...

 

[Mark McIntyre]

What he may be thinking of are the "Classes"

classes are offtopic in CLC...

 

[Jordan Abel]

Undoubtedly the Recording Ind Ass of America would disagree.....

Well, the RIAA mostly goes after file sharers - which means they can
do funny math to make the total number of works involved higher,
thus inflating the final retail value used for the threshold of
criminal copyright violation.