[Cialug] OT: Online Petitions (was: OT: Choose the lesser evi l? Save XP?)

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

Well...they did put Paris Hilton back in jail (for the rest of her
term...unfortunately not longer).  So that one worked...right?

Too bad the one to put WM2003SE (or newer) on my ipaq didn't go through.

--Justin

On Jan 14, 2008 4:56 PM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2008 4:39 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> > I Suppose I look at it a bit like playing the lottery.  If the InfoWorld
> > servers get DOS'd from all the signers and they have to ship the
> petition to
> > MS on 3 DVDs because of all the signatures, it just might be the one
> they
> > take notice of.  One can hope I guess?
>
> Fair enough.  I want to emphasize that I do not mean to criticize you
> at all; I merely disagree about the expected benefits of
> participating.  ("Men of good will may disagree," etc.)  And quite a
> lot of people on this list are inconvenienced by Vista and would
> conceivably be interested in the link.
>
> > Sorry if I or this topic has stolen valuable minutes from your day or
> your
> > life.  Maybe I can make it up to you with a valuable timesaving tip in
> the
> > future.
>
> It got me thinking about something in a new way ("would a perfectly
> rational actor with given beliefs about petition effectiveness spend X
> seconds signing an online petition?"), so I found the post valuable as
> food for thought.  :-)
>
> And yes, I fully appreciate the irony of prattling on about not
> signing petitions long enough to have signed up many tens of times
> already.  Mwahaha.
>
> - Nathan
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