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Another older spelling for jail.
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Another older spelling for jail.
You spell it jail.
bernie14
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Thanks, I had seen it a couple of times and assumed so, but I somehow always associated it with ancient France gaul
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Technically, in most US states, "jail" refers to the local county facility that miscreants are housed in for all kinds of reasons; pending trial, got one of those work-release sentences, violated some local ordinance that allows for jail time, got some petty sentence that doesn't warrant the hassle of transferring to state custody. "Prison" refers to facilities run by either the state department of corrections (what's up, DoC?) or the federal bureau of prisons (BoP BoP BoP). Frequently state regulations prohibit county facilities from holding someone for a year or more, leading to the classic "year less a day" sentence. Within the federal system (BoP BoP BoP) the word "prison" is taken to mean United States Penitentiaries (USPs) while most people actually incarcerated go to Federal Correction Institutions (FCIs).
More generically than what Tim was saying, a long term rather than a short term facility.
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Say, does anybody happen to know, when the Dems take over House committees in January and have the capacity to subpoena Trump's tax returns, do they have to subpoena them from Trump or can they subpoena them from the IRS? The IRS would presumably simply comply, whereas Trump would fight it with everything he has, including just flat out defying the subpoena.
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"Gaol" is the real-life version of trying to spell "fish" as "ghoti".
Chukchi Husky
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When Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was created, why did the creators decide to take the Japanese Super Sentai footage and mix it with newly recorded American footage instead of just dubbing Super Sentai?
Traitorfish
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had essentially dictated that all '90s superheros be cool big brother-types, which required lots of scenes of them drinking milkshakes and doing sports or whatever. The specific series that it the first season of Power Rangers was adopted from apparently starred "five young warriors from an ancient civilization of Dinosaur-evolved Humans", which was probably hard to spin that direction. Add in the pessimistic but probably accurate assumption that Western kids wouldn't be as readily interested in a show about Asian people, and the re-editing is almost inevitable.
Which is a shame, because their original out-of-suit outfits are much cooler than the nineties-wear in the American version.
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The IRS isn't going to comply out of hand. There would be an establishing of precedent that they are not going to do willingly.
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No, that would be normal behavior. When you send your tax returns to the IRS there is an expectation of privacy. Violating that privacy in one case, even the case of a scum-sucker like D'ump, might not be the greatest thing ever. So I'd expect they'd be hesitant.
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Yeah, but they'd have been subpoenaed before by now. That wouldn't establish a precedent. Never for a president's tax returns, true. But just some agency with the authority to subpoena; I'm sure they've responded to such things thousands of times.
Some dude on the internet who sounds like he knows what he's talking about says this:
Some dude on the internet who sounds like he knows what he's talking about says this:
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It won't be the Dems qua Dems. The Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee has the authority to subpoena the records [presumably from the IRS] to be viewed in closed-door sessions.
I presume the subpoena would go to the IRS because the committee is going to want to examine the returns which were actually filed, not the ones the taxpayer contends were filed.
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Being an old guy, perhaps I am missing some nuance that a younger person may provide....is there some difference between "agency" and "responsibility" ?
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Agency is the capacity to do something; responsibility is the requirement that you be the one who do it.
They're usually linked: if you're given agency, you're held responsible for the task you're given agency for getting done.
If you're held responsible for something, you're given the agency to do it.
They're distinct.
I think I'm younger that you (I'm 53), and so qualified to answer.
They're usually linked: if you're given agency, you're held responsible for the task you're given agency for getting done.
If you're held responsible for something, you're given the agency to do it.
They're distinct.
I think I'm younger that you (I'm 53), and so qualified to answer.
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But if you have the capacity to do something, you are not necessarily responsible for it 
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