Silly is how absolutely naive that was. Lying is the basis of advertising- an industry whose raison d'être is to make you buy something you wouldn't want to otherwise.

False advertising laws don't restrict lies, but only certain types of lies. The kind you suggested is not among those and easily circumvented using the word 'cool people drink X'.

Definitely- good point. Campaign finance is definitely an important place where Israel is a way more democratic nation than the US. "Citizens United" (our recent Supreme Court ruling on the matter) was a huge step backwards.

Another is the actual viability of new political parties. People here claim that if we didn't just have two parties, we'd suffer from the problem of minority rule Israel does, but we have that already, courtesy of the filibuster, anonymous hold, and other such undemocratic tricks.

Let me know when you're done moving the goal posts every time you're forced to retreat. I've got better things to do than debate a coward.

Only its defense, not its social policies which are entirely self-funded.

Federal aid is limited to military expenditures, and those must be purchased from the US. So it actually comes down to being yet another handout to the American military-industrial complex

PS- Be a dick if you like, throwing around words like 'utopia' to disparage that which you don't understand.

The definition of "product" in law usually doesn't include "happy feelings". It's limited to the physical goods being exchanged.

Again, depending on the actual laws in place in Israel, that distinction may or may not be sufficient to regulate this issue.

Models aren't the product, so I wonder if false advertising laws would even apply.

Considering this story is about Israel, you sound even sillier than you crazy conservatives usually do. Those aren't just promises. Education is free, healthcare co-pays aren't just cheap but are merely symbolic, and pensions still exist. Oh, and they still maintain a massive military budget, and don't owe China their firstborn.

Your move.

But if I don't friend them, how am I supposed to keep my enemies closer? :)

What's shocking is that kids still need to be told this. I thought they were supposed to be smarter than us when it comes to all this social/tech crap.

The difference though is in the target of the lie.
- Good: When you lie to the SEC or another company, that's just being a good businessman and valued member of your own corporation.
- Bad: However lying to your boss and your shareholders means you're not to be trusted with the position you hold.

Because that worked so well for them recently? Truth is this is a no-win situation for them. No matter what they do, a small number of anti-Google fanatics will cry bloody murder, and low-quality editors will help them spread their nonsense.

Now before you go crying about that "fanatics" I used, let's take a look at three points:
1) EPIC's "report" glosses over the fact that the supposed "overbroad" terms are global to the entire collection of Google services, and was not specifically designed for Google Drive. So attributing a bunch of general terms which apply to a comment you post on a public Google+ photo, to your private Google Drive files is naive at best, and intentionally misleading at worst.
2) That was "reported" by MacWorld. Not exactly a clutch of Google fans who are trustworthy in checking the facts.
3) Who are the other so-called "privacy advocates" in the MacWorld story? DropBox users.

Next thing you know, we'll have Linux users coming here and ripping on Microsoft.

Until a decent reporter tells us something substantial, this should be seen as a non-story to all but the tin-foil folks.

You'd be correct under other circumstances.

But the article I found on Google News' health section explained there was no effectiveness in using a ridiculous form of treatment, so reading that article would not actually be useful to people suffering from migraines.

Neither, because they can just switch to using ground moose for a couple months.

But seriously, they probably don't import very much beef from California dairy farms so this is a non-issue.

Or it's just that it's lower down in the health section because it's simply far more important for people to know that you can't fix migraines with... botox?

Yeah, we're all screwed up over here. Thanks for the reminder.

Had my own scare at sea. I was sailing in the Med., woke up from a catnap and freaked out by the moon on my mainsail, thinking I drifted into a shipping lane.