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It does not hurt to try.
-- Panther TEK: Staying On Top Of All Your Computer Needs! www.members.cox.net/catprotector/panthertek Cat Galaxy: All Cats, All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Dennis Carr" wrote in message news I actually didn't sign it - and won't. Online petitions hold about as much water as a sieve in the Mojave desert. http://tinyurl.com/3gp9s Like the article as linked (goes to Snopes, BTW) suggests, you're better off writing your congresscritters. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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It does not hurt to try.
-- Panther TEK: Staying On Top Of All Your Computer Needs! www.members.cox.net/catprotector/panthertek Cat Galaxy: All Cats, All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Dennis Carr" wrote in message news I actually didn't sign it - and won't. Online petitions hold about as much water as a sieve in the Mojave desert. http://tinyurl.com/3gp9s Like the article as linked (goes to Snopes, BTW) suggests, you're better off writing your congresscritters. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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Laura R. wrote:
circa 14 Apr 2004 14:31:20 -0700, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Karen M. ) said, Even though I don't like dogs I signed it. What this guy has done is disgusting and cats could be next. God you're a moron. snort My thoughts exactly. Well, actually, I was leaning more towards "headcase", but... ;-) Laura Yes, there's so many things wrong with what written in those two sentences. You could probably build an upper-level psych course around them... |
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Laura R. wrote:
circa 14 Apr 2004 14:31:20 -0700, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Karen M. ) said, Even though I don't like dogs I signed it. What this guy has done is disgusting and cats could be next. God you're a moron. snort My thoughts exactly. Well, actually, I was leaning more towards "headcase", but... ;-) Laura Yes, there's so many things wrong with what written in those two sentences. You could probably build an upper-level psych course around them... |
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:57:23 -0400, justice for animals wrote:
please reconsider your position on this issue, not only for this case, but in general. you *can* make a difference. The problem remains that there is too much padding that's possible, and a list of 2000 email addresses is something that can and will be considered arbitrary. I can create an infinite number of email addresses on my computer here, pretend they're all my (l)users, and sign the petition with each of those addresses. Your count will go to 2000 in a heartbeat, but it'll count for nothing because, QED, I can pad the dataset with garbage, and if I can pad it, so can anybody else - including the petitioner. With no validation mechanism (in this case, a validation mechanism would be PGP/GPG signatures or something similar collected with the email addresses), the data is spectacularly useless to anybody but a marketing firm. I hate to sound callous, then, but there is really nothing to reconsider. You are certainly wise to get the word out on this and raise Cain about it, and God's blessings to you for that, it needs to be done - but an OLP won't work for a hill of beans if I want something done. You gotta write your congresscritters. If I want laws to change or otherwise raise concerns with federal government, Rep. Loretta Sanchez' office is walking distance from my home, and Sen's Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are but a mailbox and three days away - and if I want to go to the state, well, somehow or another, writing a letter to Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger up in Sacramento just seems kinda cool. =^^= And that, sir, is precisely what I have done. Now what they can do for some random furry fan with cats is left as an exercise to the reader, but I think the answers are in the questions raised. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:57:23 -0400, justice for animals wrote:
please reconsider your position on this issue, not only for this case, but in general. you *can* make a difference. The problem remains that there is too much padding that's possible, and a list of 2000 email addresses is something that can and will be considered arbitrary. I can create an infinite number of email addresses on my computer here, pretend they're all my (l)users, and sign the petition with each of those addresses. Your count will go to 2000 in a heartbeat, but it'll count for nothing because, QED, I can pad the dataset with garbage, and if I can pad it, so can anybody else - including the petitioner. With no validation mechanism (in this case, a validation mechanism would be PGP/GPG signatures or something similar collected with the email addresses), the data is spectacularly useless to anybody but a marketing firm. I hate to sound callous, then, but there is really nothing to reconsider. You are certainly wise to get the word out on this and raise Cain about it, and God's blessings to you for that, it needs to be done - but an OLP won't work for a hill of beans if I want something done. You gotta write your congresscritters. If I want laws to change or otherwise raise concerns with federal government, Rep. Loretta Sanchez' office is walking distance from my home, and Sen's Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are but a mailbox and three days away - and if I want to go to the state, well, somehow or another, writing a letter to Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger up in Sacramento just seems kinda cool. =^^= And that, sir, is precisely what I have done. Now what they can do for some random furry fan with cats is left as an exercise to the reader, but I think the answers are in the questions raised. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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