Post by SharonOn Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:59:46 -0700, DisneyWizard the
Just a note of thanks for providing these WotDs!
Sharon
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ON ALTRUSI:M
Thanks for your cheer/like, Sharon. I'm certain yours represents the
sentiment of a multitude.
Of cynics and stoics, such are Diogenese and Epicurius, it has been
proposed that there are no true acts of altruism - those acts of giving
unselfishly - that each act is ultimately subtended by greed for the
likes such as increased social standing, wealth, power or influence.
Sweepstakes are no exception for the modern give-away (webified or
paper) is a lead collecting subterfuge concerned with the collection of
identifying data in the guise of free gifts [IMHO Publisher's
Clearinghouse does that most effectively.]
It can be proven mathematically that keeping the _Word_of_the_Day_ to
myself is the most logical action - it promotes my chances at winning. I
counter that I have slightly better odds of winning the grand prize of
the Disneyland 60 Sweepstakes than I have of Publisher's Clearinghouse,
as there are fewer entries. So slim are my chances, I believe, that
revealing the WotD in an (now relatively obscure) newsgroup (as eclipsed
by other, more popular, social-media) does not significantly impact my
chances of winning. Much less do I know what I'd do with the prize
should I win. [As opposed to the State Lottery, where my chances of
winning are the number of entrants divided by ZERO, ( the set of all
real and imaginary numbers infinite in the positive and negative,
integral and fractional.) I can't win when I don't play.]
My apparent altruism in this case actually stems from being a DIS
stockholder. The official web page, for me, takes several tries of
reloading after waiting five minutes each try, for the word to
eventually render amid all the flashy display activity, most often not
while staring ten minutes at a white screen with "filters" on the
bottom, a "more Disneyland.com" banner and a blue spermatozoon stuck or
spinning confoundedly. For many years have I complained to Corp. that
quickly loading web pages be an option. Not everyone has (nor can
afford) a DSL or faster Internet Connection - there are still those who
must rely on advertising enveloped legacy dial-up connections such are
NetZero and AOL. For them loading a single Disney page loaded with Flash
movie headers and megabytes of SSI graphics takes an hour to render,
just as there are millions of folk who's equipment is older than five
years, yet Disney.com continues to design pages as if each of us has the
newest quad processor on a gigabit home network with a FIOS gateway. It
is certainly possible for go.disney.com to record the start-time of
loading a page and compare a benchmark. Should the load time be slow,
then server-side include an option for those experiencing slower
connections. If Gmail can do it, Disney should be able to do it better,
wouldn't you think? That suggestion is not truly altruistic because if
the average surf page view is five seconds and a page takes two minutes
to render, then the Disney message is not being effectively relayed and
DIS is losing business by refusing revenue opportunity, limiting return
on investment and decreasing my dividend. (Does it matter I received a
single share as a gift? I looks great on my wall and proves I'm a
shareholder.) Until my shareholder complaint is recognized and
implemented, I continue to stand for the little guy in this matter, the
scrappy under dog, the impoverished and the Mickey Mouse , as Walt
Disney intended, the ability to enjoy his product by EVERYONE.
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