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Post by Swimmy on Mar 15, 2011 23:35:35 GMT -5
Rules need to be revised to rule out weapons like whips. I have been taking a beating here. haha. No, whips, as long as in Stoney's hand, are accepted  |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 15, 2011 23:58:22 GMT -5
We get 15 views of "premium" content a month. You don't know if it is premium or not until you click on it. It seems the breaking news under the yellow banners at the top of the page are premium news. I have accidentally used two of my fifteen already, haha. One of those premium news items was today, when I found out that the guy in Reels creek drowned. Yep, that is news that I would pay extra for. Duh. He was face down in a creek. That leads me to believe it is 50/50. He either drowned or someone killed him and threw him in the creek. Utica Daily News tells us that for free.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 16, 2011 5:34:09 GMT -5
From wnat I've read it looks like a corporate decision. Several other Gatehouse newspapers have done the same thing in the past week.
One of my daily reads (theMminneaposis Star & Tribune, not a Gatehouse paper) has done this for a year or more. In their case the premium content is clearly marked & I just don't read it.
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Post by yankee on Mar 16, 2011 11:58:39 GMT -5
LOL. I have been considering a rule that you are not allowed to disagree with the admin politically, but then the membership would drop off by about 1/2. and I would lose you and BZ and all my fun.   Gee, if you did that you'd be a lot like the OD. I don't think that's a very good idea. And life would become so dull....a lot like Utica!  |
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Post by firstamendment on Mar 16, 2011 12:59:22 GMT -5
LOL. I have been considering a rule that you are not allowed to disagree with the admin politically, but then the membership would drop off by about 1/2. and I would lose you and BZ and all my fun. Gee, if you did that you'd be a lot like the OD. I don't think that's a very good idea. And life would become so dull....a lot like Utica! Or worse, a lot like WKTV and Tom Coyne. |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 16, 2011 13:44:56 GMT -5
Yep. Both of you are quite correct. We don't want that to happen, that is for sure. Not only that, but to do so would kinda make me like so many that serve us in Washington. "My way or the Highway" attitude to "ruling" rather than governing or moderating. |
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Post by firstamendment on Mar 17, 2011 8:48:03 GMT -5
Clear your browser cookies. I use a program called CCleaner to clean up my registry and other stuff on my computer. When I got the pop up that I had already viewed 15 articles, I closed Internet Explorer, ran CCleaner to just clear my cookies and went back on the OD with no issues.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 17, 2011 9:29:23 GMT -5
Thank you. I run the same cleaner program & you just save me the experiment I was going to run.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 9:34:07 GMT -5
We get 15 views of "premium" content a month. You don't know if it is premium or not until you click on it. It seems the breaking news under the yellow banners at the top of the page are premium news. I have accidentally used two of my fifteen already, haha. One of those premium news items was today, when I found out that the guy in Reels creek drowned. Yep, that is news that I would pay extra for. Duh. He was face down in a creek. That leads me to believe it is 50/50. He either drowned or someone killed him and threw him in the creek. Utica Daily News tells us that for free. I used up my 15 already and don't know how. I only clicked on the opinion section once and the only other thing I do is click thru the front page. About the guy who drowned. I know a lady who knows him. He had a alcohol content of .29. Very high. He was a homeless alcoholic and occasionally lived in an alley around Bleecker St. He had some other health problems as well. |
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Post by firstamendment on Mar 17, 2011 9:36:59 GMT -5
Interesting thing to note, if you click on a "premium" story more than one time, it counts each time you visit that page. I was going back to a story last night to see any new comments on it and that is when I got the notification. I cleaned the cookies out and went right back to that story with no problem.
There is conflicting info as to whether that guy was homeless. He lived with his dad but walked out when they got into a tiff.
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Post by yankee on Mar 17, 2011 10:14:56 GMT -5
You should get a "credit" back for every time you have to dodge that annoying little spin-in popup ad!
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Post by stoney on Mar 17, 2011 11:54:58 GMT -5
Firstamendment & Alan, if you get the paper, watch for my ltr. to the editor regarding that guy's drowning. It pisses me off that he wasn't offered help by all those who came in contact with him that night.  |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 17, 2011 12:31:38 GMT -5
They say he was looking for a motel room. I really can't blame the motel owners for not wanting to rent him a room if that was the case and he was that drunk. .29 isn't drunk, it is plastered. You are right though. Someone should have called the police if he was that drunk and without a place to sleep. The police could have probably put him in jail overnight and he might be alive today.
I hate to say it, but I have to think he was simply another sad casualty of alcoholism. Way too young to die, but living in despair with his problems put him on track to a bad end.
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Post by firstamendment on Mar 17, 2011 13:01:44 GMT -5
They say he was looking for a motel room. I really can't blame the motel owners for not wanting to rent him a room if that was the case and he was that drunk. .29 isn't drunk, it is plastered. You are right though. Someone should have called the police if he was that drunk and without a place to sleep. The police could have probably put him in jail overnight and he might be alive today. I hate to say it, but I have to think he was simply another sad casualty of alcoholism. Way too young to die, but living in despair with his problems put him on track to a bad end. From what I am hearing elsewhere, he had alcohol issues. I do have to agree about the hotels not renting to him when he was stone cold drunk. Taking a big liability there. Perhaps they could or should have called the police to come and pick him up. Perhaps he wasn't disorderly, but clearly with a BAC of .29, he was not coherent enough to be making decisions on his own. And clearly he was not safe left to his own devices. Chances are he slipped into that canal by getting too close or perhaps he was trying to get down there to seek shelter under the roadway and slipped. It is tragic that a young life was lost when it could have been avoided. He is but one of the stories you actually read about. How many homeless die all the time that you don't? That is the real tragedy, the forgotten Americans. |
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Post by stoney on Mar 17, 2011 14:51:56 GMT -5
Exactly!! Just because the guy was drunk was no reason not to assist him by calling the police. Many might say that that would be some sort of "punishment" for the guy, but don't stop to realize the police are there to help & protect.
I remember when my father was picked up drunk more than once by the Ilion police back in the 60s & brought home safely. Different time, different population, but the police still help.
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