Also, it's not about registration. It's about my right to be able to access the Internet in privacy.
If you want a copy of the Times without giving up your privacy, either follow NanoGator's advice (which you have clearly done), or walk up to a newsstand, pony up a buck and get your very own paper copy. It's more fun to read it in paper, too.
This is a newspaper you're reading. You get a free copy of one of the country's best papers, and you're whining about entering an email address and some personal info. Stop bitching, you're not paying anything and the Times doesn't sell your soul to the devil.
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Also, it's not about registration. It's about my right to be able to access the Internet in privacy. If you want a copy of the Times without giving up your privacy, either follow NanoGator's advice (which you have clearly done), or walk up to a newsstand, pony up a buck and get your very own paper copy. It's more fun to read it in paper, too.
This is a newspaper you're reading. You get a free copy of one of the country's best papers, and you're whining about entering an email address and some personal info. Stop bitching, you're not paying anything and the Times doesn't sell your soul to the devil.
Despite the humorous tone (regardless, you were modded Humorous)... It's humorous because it's a direct quote from Dr. Strangelove.