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Is it silly? If I claim my pizza is the best, and I never even ran it in a competition, aren't I just lying? I could say that my internet service is the best wh
by lovich 8y ago
Is it silly? If I claim my pizza is the best, and I never even ran it in a competition, aren't I just lying? I could say that my internet service is the best when someone provides actual unlimited data in the same area and it's the same thing.
I would heavily prefer a country that actually had rule of law and didn't let companies just lie to consumers without consequence. The more this sort of thing goes on in America, the more people will disregard any semblance of law
- dagw 8y agoIf I claim my pizza is the best, and I never even ran it in a competition, aren't I just lying? A (fairly mediocre) hamburger place back where I grew up heavily advertised themselves as "The award winning best burgers in town", reference (in tiny print) a test the local newspaper had done over 10 years ago. So basically it shouldn't be too hard to claim that your X is 'the best' according to some measure without having to outright lie.
- Retric 8y agoIn the US some phrases like Best are considered devoid of meaning. The issue is you can develop an arbitrary scale defining Best such as closest to our restaurant or whatever.
- nkrisc 8y agoWhat really gets me is that words like 'unlimited' have a pretty unambiguous meaning. Is there any limit? Then it's not unlimited.
- dagw 8y agoYou can download as much data as you want over the 32 kb/s connection we provide you :)
- unnouinceput 8y agoI have 1Gbps (125MB) unlimited. I've never had any throttle. And down service is like max. 5 hours per year. Sometime I just put 100GB worth of torrents in queue, go eat lunch in kitchen and comeback and they are all finished. Welcome To Romania where unlimited is the norm here. Oh, and costs ~$15/month
- nkrisc 8y agoBut when you're not throttled at the start of the month and you are after reaching a certain amount of data usage (dare I say, a limit) then it is not unlimited.
- dagw 8y agoI suppose someone could argue that you're always 'throttled', by network congestion if nothing else, and all they're doing is changing the throttle.
- grasshopperpurp 8y agoExactly - big difference between and quantifiable and unquantifiable claims.
- tripzilch 8y agoSo do words like "best". Is there anything better than it? Then it's not the best.
- tripzilch 8y ago> In the US some phrases like Best are considered devoid of meaning. What. Do you still have warranty on that language, because it appears to be broken.