Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Accessing New York Times article

[Nancy Baughman Csuti (nancycsuti]

Delete your cookies and it will reset the number of articles to zero. You
get 2-3 a month free but you probably have cookies showing you already
reached the three. Just go into settings and delete cookies and you can
read the NYT article.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 8:58 AM Dick Margulis <dick [at] dmargulis.com> wrote:

> On 2/14/2022 10:21 AM, Fred H Olson wrote:
> >
> > Paywalls are a pain.  I dont try to view NYT articles online very often
> but
> > it always says my quota is exceeded.  Are there really any articles
> allowed
> > without paying?
> >
> >
>
> I know that I am paddling upstream in a swift-flowing river on this
> point, but I am a firm believer that newspapers need to be paid for. The
> entire newspaper industry has contracted mightily in the US and is
> seriously endangered precisely because consumers believe they are
> entitled to free everything. You're not. If you want quality journalism
> to continue, pay for a subscription to at least one paper and preferable
> two or three. I pay for the New York Times and the Washington Post. You
> might make other choices. While you're at it, send the Wikimedia
> Foundation some money every year.
>
> If all you want to do is keep up with the daily headlines for free, you
> can do that by skimming Google News. If you click through to an article,
> you may encounter a paywall or you may not.
>
> While I'm on the subject, let's talk about books. You can borrow them
> from the library for free, but if you want your own copy, please pay for
> it. Don't go looking for a free download. All of us who make our living
> from books will appreciate it.
>
> >
> >
> > Sympathy to Rocky Corner, the plan to include affordable units
> > was impressive.  Were complications related to the affordable units
> > a big factor in the foreclosure?
> >
>
> They were a factor, but not in the way you might think. By the luck of
> the draw, the functionary the CT department of housing initially
> assigned to our case was a constipated toad who held up our paperwork
> for a full year after our funds were approved. During that year,
> construction costs escalated and the construction manager had to get the
> project rebid, which put us behind the eight ball. That year's delay
> meant that carrying costs continued to accrue. Our architect's contract
> expired, meaning they could start billing us hourly charges for
> construction supervision. Etc. Etc. So the delays caused by the schmuck
> at DOH cost us mightily, but the mere fact of having an affordable
> component wasn't the reason. He was the reason.
>
> In retrospect, four individuals working for four entities were fired or
> reassigned because of the way they mishandled our project: we got a new
> case manager at DOH; the person in charge of our project at the regional
> water authority who kept shining us on about accommodating our needs
> when she knew damn well that wasn't going to happen was fired; the bank
> loan officer who secured our construction loan and then choked us off at
> a critical juncture is no longer employed by the bank; and the project
> manager (person) initially assigned to our project by the project
> management company, who made a number of costly errors early in the
> construction process is no longer employed by that company.
>
> The short version: A lot of people gave lip service to wanting us to
> succeed, but when they were sitting at their desks doing their jobs,
> they were only interested in protecting their own backsides and blaming
> other people for their failure to deliver.
>
> Yes, we made some errors along the way, but nobody who was supposed to
> be helping us (for good money) said, "Hey, don't do that. Do this instead."
>
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