Ah, okay, I misunderstood you! Sorry :-)

Obviously, Virgine is produced by next season's Project Runway contestants. It's stealth marketing.

But that's the thing - it wasn't the victim's testimony alone:

Agreed. Most DAs don't even take rape cases involving alcohol to trial, so I'm actually impressed this went as far as it did.

There was none at all. No hair, no semen, no pubic hairs in the evidence collected from the apartment or in the rape kit collected at the hospital. There was a small red patch found on her cervix, but that could have been caused by several things, including penetration by a penis.

As one of those commenters I assume you're referring to, that's not at all what I said. I just reread the article in question and the comments, actually, and NO commenters said that. Come on.

In fairness, you would be allowed to say those things if you worked with the FDA to do a premarket approval. It's just hugely expensive and time consuming, and nothing as yet has proved effective and safe enough to be worth it.

It just seems to me to be another symptom of the issue that we (the military, male soldiers, maybe even society) believe that women who join the military are supposed to give up their gender. They are supposed to cease being women, and any issues they face as women are just symptoms of the fact that we don't want…

My guess is they say stuff like "lose" inches because of FDA and FTC rules. Touting weight loss might actually push these products into the realm of medical devices, which would require some major FDA oversight and proof they work. As of now, the FDA hasn't indicated that inch-loss is a therapeutic claim, is my guess,…

It's not just any unwanted touching - it's unwanted touching of intimate or sexual areas, which can be charged as either sexual abuse or forcible touching. He admitted to cuddling with her, but did not admit to touching her private areas, just to kissing her, I believe, which is not sexual assault under NYS law. It…

Yep. They also I believe had a PBA attorney during the criminal trial so they didn't need to pay those legal fees either. Granted, their careers are over, and they could do 2 years for the official misconduct charge, but it's unlikely they'll do even that much.

It means both he cannot be retried and the prosecution cannot appeal the verdict. The government cannot appeal a conviction. He can be (and is being) sued in civil court, but he cannot be tried for the same charges and will not face criminal sanctions for them

I think the issue was that he claimed no sexual activity took place, and thus, the issue of consent was irrelevant. I believe NY has the same law about alcohol and consent on the books, but someone let me know if I'm wrong.

But I don't think the issue is legality, as was pointed out above - Truche isn't suing them. But I think it lends to the overall credibility of Truche's allegation that they derived the idea from her specifically if both the design and the copy match up, no?

Here's what I don't understand:

I still don't see how that addresses Truche's allegations that UO stole her copy for the description of the items and the name of the product line, even if the design itself is not copyrightable.

YES. See my comment below. I used to get 8oz bottles of Gatorade as a kid. I just drank a 9.5oz Starbucks Frappuccino drink (yeah yeah, hypocritical me) and imagined it at slightly more than double its size. And god, I don't even think I have the wherewithal for 20oz at one time NOW, let alone when I was 7.

I am glad there is an article relevant enough for me to say this:

We got the little bottles - do they not make those anymore? At 7 or 8, I don't know if I could have drank 20oz of ANYTHING, let alone something kind of filling like Gatorade.. In any case, occasional treats, be they sugary drinks or high-calorie desserts, aren't evil for kids - they just need to be occasional, and…

I am positive sexual assault (and certainly sexual harassment) must be an underreported and likely more-common-thank-we-think occupational hazard for hotel maids, particularly at high end hotels.