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  • On the post: David Guetta: The Way To Beat 'Piracy' Is To Give Your Music Away Free

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 12:44pm

    Rape sucks.

    And a culture that denies it's prevalence sucks even harder.

    Discuss.

  • On the post: David Guetta: The Way To Beat 'Piracy' Is To Give Your Music Away Free

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 12:43pm

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    Also, maybe we should move to the bottom, because this is getting hard to read. :)

  • On the post: David Guetta: The Way To Beat 'Piracy' Is To Give Your Music Away Free

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 12:43pm

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    ...so would that indicate that the "Rape Culture" is actually receding?

    Rape is a perpetually under-reported crime, so it's hard to say for sure... But I sincerely hope so.

    Ding ding ding! Dark Helmet, right again!

    Hehe, yes, you were right, but I wasn't wrong. :)

    Are you REALLY postulating that the backgrounds of the military as a whole are not those of a decidedly lower income tax bracket than the average American? Because methinks that would be a VERY bad position to take....

    I guess that would depend on your definition of 'average'. My position is based on

    a. personal experience and
    b. the fact that, until recently, the military was able to pick and choose candidates from applicants that were required to have high school diplomas.

    Since children from low-income families are

    a. less likley to have diplomas and
    b. less likely to pass their ASVAB with an acceptable score,

    I think it's safe to postulate that more military personnel come from middle class families than from lower class families.

    However, I'd be willing to change that position if I saw any hard data.

    Also, I was thinking more of all the rape/sexual assault that likely occurs in lower socio-economic classes on children/minors.

    I wouldn't take the position that rape occurs more often to children in lower-income families, and the idea that rape is something that happens to poor people is in itself a rape culture trope.

    But, again, hard data might change my opinion about that.

    I'll have to look up stats to see if it's correct, but I'm guessing you'll find more molestation for instance in the rural south and/or urban poor compared with middle-class suburbia....

    I'd be really interested to see stats that come to that (or any other) conclusion, so please post it if you find any. :)

  • On the post: David Guetta: The Way To Beat 'Piracy' Is To Give Your Music Away Free

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 12:34pm

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    I linked to the study in my comment, so feel free to peruse. :)

  • On the post: David Guetta: The Way To Beat 'Piracy' Is To Give Your Music Away Free

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 11:29am

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    ...damn, Rose, you're waaaay to smart to make such a statistcally invalid claim.

    You're too smart to knock my stats without even reviewing my data, yet here you are. :)

    As for my stats, they're from a study by the National Institute of Justice.

    The 1/6 rape victim number is shocking to me and I'm having trouble believing it's true...

    Yes, because we live in a rape culture.

    I'll just about gurantee you that the avg. TD reader isn't experiencing that number.

    The average Techdirt reader is male, so no, he's not experiencing that number. He's experiencing a number closer to 1 in 31.

    Just think of all the socio-economic factors involved....

    By 'socio-economic', do you mean 'poor'? If so, you might find it interesting to note that the NIJ found college women to be particularly at risk for sexual assault. Another study that I can find, if you like, notes the high risk of rape in the military, as well, which is another place that the particularly poor don't go.

    Of course, you totes may have meant something else. :P

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 11:15am

    Re: Great Medical Inventors

    I am not going to give you direct contact information but you are welcome to contact and ask if yo an find public sources. Some have passed away.

    Yes, like the poor man whose acquaintance you pretend and whose organization name you co-opted.

    Look up what I have actually wrote and see if you can find any reasonable personal profit motive.

    There's no need for a cash profit motive, because:

    a. you don't actually do anything, and
    b. feeding your enormous ego is more than enough motive for your actions.

    Incidentally, you should look at www.InventorEd.org/k-12.

    No, you should look there.

    It has been widely used by both public schools and people home schooling their children.

    No, it hasn't.

  • On the post: Most Insightful, Funniest Comments Of The Week On Techdirt

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 11:10am

    Re: To Whom It May Concern...

    Annnnnnnnnd Dark Helmet wins next week, too. :P

  • On the post: Forget Hot Coffee, Now Disney Is Sued For Severe Burns From Nacho Cheese

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 11:03am

    Re: Re: Picture worth 1000 words...

    Agreed. As consumers, we're supposed to be able to consider the products and services legally sold to us to be safe to use and consume in a reasonable manner.

    It's reasonable to assume that a chair will hold the weight of a child, that nachos will not burn you, that toasters will not explode while toasting, and so on.

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 08:20am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory

    I agreed with you until the end. Also, the part where you completely ignored what I said. Like Daryl, you picked out one word from my comment and ranted on that, rather than actually responding to what I said.

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 05:04am

    Re: Re: Re: End of most medical inventions?

    I have known a number of truly great inventors...

    Name them and hand over their verifiable contact information. Otherwise, we'll continue to believe that you're a liar whose most used invention is a series of dummy organizations and nonexistent connections to inventors and politicians.

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:56am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???



    You're assuming that I disagree with Mike's assessment of the First Amendment?

    Wow, you really are an asshat. :)

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:54am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory

    I hae sunk several million of my own money in this in addition to donating staggering amounts of time.

    Why would you invest money into a venture without a patent guaranteeing a return on that investment, Ronni J. Asshat?

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:52am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory

    You love them so much you let your ego screw up their education. Right.

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:51am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Let's play set theory

    Nothing like him? Um, he looks like your thinner counterpart, and that's assuming that your photo is actually of you.

    This is the Internet, moron. No one really knows if you're a dog.

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:48am

    Re: Re: Tact & End of medical inventions?

    A comment which is based of false assumptions. Who is going to invest in medial advances if they cannot recover their investment?

    Yes, your comment was based on false assumptions, like the idea that people can't recover their investment without a patent or a copyright, or with an old-fashioned patent or copyright, and not this new-fangled rubber stamp thing we've got going on.

    Explain, if you will, ibuprofen, aspirin, and acetaminophen, none of which are patented and all of which enjoy healthy sales each year.

    Who is going to invest in medial advances if they cannot recover their investment?

    Not all of our medical advances haven't come from medical research. In fact, many advances of the last fifty years have come from our space program, 100% subsidized by taxpayers.

    Where's that screeching halt, again?

    If medicines are not invented then we will all have shorter life expectancies.

    Shorter than what? And how does that have any bearing on this conversation?

    In fact, the real problem is over population and that will sooner or later lead to a pandemic. It is inevitable.

    Again, how does that have any bearing on the conversation? And if you believe that over-population is the problem, and that lack of modern patents/copyrights will drive us to a solution to that problem, then why are you complaining?

    For all the talk of logic this comment was not thought out.

    Your comments rarely are.

    Medical advances are very costly...

    That's a false assumption if I ever saw one.

    ...and if there is no incentive for private parties to invest...

    There was incentive before patents, and when the patent system was new, so why would that incentive suddenly disappear? I mean, you act like we crawled out of the trees and started picking the lice out of our hair when the patent system was invented, when in fact our knowledge and treatment of illnesses has been growing for thousands of years.

    Again, explain ibuprofen, aspirin, and acetaminophen, none of which are patented and all of which enjoy healthy sales each year.

    ...and if people are not willing to be taxed the only possible outcome is all of us being subject to death sooner rather than just the poor.

    You make so many false assumptions that it's almost not funny. Almost.

    As it stands now the poor do get cheap access to medical inventions when patents expire.

    When they expire? You mean that you live in an alternate reality where patent-holders don't routinely sue competing companies in order to keep them from producing and selling now-expired items?

    Ronald J. Riley,

    President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org

    Other Affiliations:
    Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org
    Senior Fellow - www.PatentPolicy.org
    President - Alliance for American Innovation
    Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel
    Washington, DC
    Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST.

  • On the post: Most Insightful, Funniest Comments Of The Week On Techdirt

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:38am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Jim Jones and Co. didn't drink Kool-Aid. They drank Flavr-Aid, dammit.

    I keep telling people this, but no one listens.

    Also, I think it's awesome that the Saturday post comes with refreshments. :)

  • On the post: Most Insightful, Funniest Comments Of The Week On Techdirt

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2011 @ 04:38am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Kudos, as usual, to DH.

    Or late for dinner. :P

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2011 @ 08:01pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: missing for how long ???

    Maybe this has something to with a pattern of what you have to say not being worth reading.

    I think you're still upset that I called you an asshat. :)

  • On the post: Vivaelamor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2011 @ 08:00pm

    Re: Re:

    You have, too, I believe. I mean, we all purchased the Crystal Ball for a one year period well over a year ago, so... :P

  • On the post: Most Insightful, Funniest Comments Of The Week On Techdirt

    Rose M. Welch ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2011 @ 11:26am

    Kudos, as usual, to DH.

    That poem was fairly epic. :)

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