What side are you on? What do you think the advantages of method overloading are?

Our friends at Stack Overflow are having a lively debate on the advantages of Function (Method) Overloading. Read through the discussion here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3343913/what-is-the-use-advantage-of-function-overloading

What side are you on? What do you think the advantages of method overloading are? How would you use method overloading when writing a program?