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Quantum of Solace Review
Quantum of Solace is GoldenEye for a new generation and by far the best Bond game we've had in years. Praise really doesn't come much higher than that.
There are various other non-FPS elements to the game, such as when you're crossing a narrow walkway for instance, and you must keep Bond's balance by centring a white dot on a special balance meter with one stick while you move Bond across with the other, but they all work well as part of the action, rather than detracting from it. I won't give away all of them here - you want to have some surprises, right?
Speaking of surprises, it's worth giving a quick warning here - because the plot of the game closely follows that of the film, if you don't want to spoil the movie, then watch it before you play this! That said, the game doesn't just cover the plot of Quantum of Solace, it also covers the better part of Casino Royale too. If you haven't seen the new Bond film yet then you've probably seen the trailer - remember the part where the sultry-looking female asks Bond: 'Have you lost someone too?'. Well in the game, this comes after a particularly bracing bit of desert combat, and it causes 007 to go into a mammoth flashback, right back to the marketplace chase scene at the start of the first movie ('Stop touching your ear!') and then proceeds to offer action-packed levels covering just about every section of said movie, up to and including one of the epic final scenes where Bond must battle bad guys in a building in Venice which is collapsing into the water below.
Each stage is tied together via animated cut-scenes, either CGI-versions of scenes from the movie (ie: where we see Bond racing cars, shooting and/or fighting) or through the eyes of those monitoring events back at MI6, where we get to watch computer readouts, voice analysis programs and digital world maps that show what 007 is up to while M discusses Bond's actions with various MI6 office staff. Sounds a bit strange, but it works extremely well, and the cut scenes must be covering the loading sequences, because after the first load you don't have to sit through another loading screen, and thus the action just flows seamlessly from level to level, helping you to lose yourself in the game.
And of course, there's the multiplayer. At this point in the proceedings, I haven't been able to get greatly into this, because this being a review from an advance copy of the game, there aren't too many people online to play against. But with the CoD4 engine, a wealth of different game modes including some uniquely Bond-themed ones, and some really, really excellent multiplayer environments many of which - dare I say it - actually surpass those in CoD4, nobody who buys this with online gaming in mind is going to be disappointed. Particularly noteworthy game options include the 'Bond Vs' mode, which has one player pitted against absolutely everyone else playing as members of the 'Organisation' (in true 007 style) where the bad guys must detonate bombs and Bond must prevent them by either disarming the bombs or 'neutralising' the enemy personnel. Bond Evasion has a team of MI6 agents escorting a VIP player (or 'package') from point to point, while the Organisation team attempt to assassinate him, and, GoldenEye fans, the 'Golden Gun' mode makes a welcome return, where one player gets to wield Scaramanga's ostentatious pistol which kills with just one shot.
'... this is GoldenEye for a new generation. And praise doesn't come much higher than that.'
So... that's the pros - what about the cons? Well, there aren't that many, to be honest. If I was being really picky, then there are the interactive cut-scenes - the 'takedown' ones aren't so bad, but at certain points in the game there are more protracted interactive cut scenes where you're required to hit a long sequence of buttons, like a video game version of Simon Says, and this means that you're focussing on which button to press next rather than actually watching and enjoying the cut-scene action. Plus these sections are almost impossible to fail, which begs the question: why not just forget the button pushing altogether? But that's just a little niggle.
More importantly, a few bugs seem to have made it into the final game. While playing over the space of a week for this review, I encountered a few unusual events - one time a level started without any background music, for instance, and had to be reset to bring back the audio. Another time, I was playing through a level and no bad guys appeared at all, which meant that the door I needed to get through wasn't triggered, and I had to restart from the last checkpoint. And on a third occasion, for some entirely unknown reason, the game loaded in French, and as there's no 'switch language' option in-game I had to turn it off and load up again. All minor niggles, admittedly, but you'd hope not to see the like in a finished release.
Anyway, by now you should now have some idea of what this game entails. I could talk a little more about the unlockable content, like the MI6 debriefing stages, but all of that is basically window dressing and - honestly - only there for the real Bond geeks as the icing on the cake. No, what I think I need to do before I finish is tackle that tricky question that I posed at the start of this review - how does this game match up to the legendary GoldenEye? Before I do though, let me just lay out my credentials: one of my very first jobs as a fledgling video games journo was to complete, from scratch, an in-depth guide for the (then) just-released GoldenEye, including producing, by hand, detailed top-down maps of every level (with, I might add, absolutely no help from Rare). Add to that the fact that every lunchtime and after work for about two years, myself and various similarly obsessed colleagues played constantly on the deathmatch levels until we all knew every stage so well that we could navigate them in our sleep, and it's no exaggeration to say that I know GoldenEye inside out, and I can safely claim to be 'a big fan'. Now usually at this stage in a Bond review, it's traditional to say something like 'this newest Bond title certainly shows a lot of promise, but it can't quite match up to the originality and flare of GoldenEye'.
Note that I say 'usually'. For while I can't quite believe that I'm about to say it, I have to say that - at last - one company appears to have managed to do the impossible. To say that this game is or isn't better than GoldenEye would be disingenuous - GoldenEye is a game more than ten years old on a console generations behind current technology. Comparing Quantum Of Solace and GoldenEye like for like now would just be foolish. However, what I feel that I can say is that if the talented team of game developers who wowed gamers so long ago with that particular N64 title, set to work to produce it again now with current generation technology, then Quantum Of Solace would be the game that they would create. Or to put it another way: this is GoldenEye for a new generation. And praise doesn't come much higher than that.


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Beretta px4 sub-compact or XD9 sub-compact
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May 27, 2011, 11:25 PM
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May 27, 2011, 11:30 PM
My experience with the XD subcompact wasn't that spectacular. It was a decent shooter, but I think it looks ugly. The fullsize models look good though. Maybe I'm just crazy though. They have a pretty steady following though.
I haven't shot the beretta but it feels great in my hand. Just hate the slide mounted safety. The magazines have a push down extension so your pinky has somewhere to go, but in a defensive situation you wouldn't have time to employ it. Plus, the extension leaves a small gap to pinch your finger when its pushed down. Neat idea though.
Out of the two though, I'd decide on which I could shoot better. Striker fired or DA/SA. I think DA/SA is more fun, but I shoot striker fired better. So I'd probably go with the XD.
May 27, 2011, 11:41 PM
If I were you, I'd also look at the PX4 compact. For me, it feels way better in my hand than the sub-compact, and is just marginally bigger. Plus, you get the rotating barrel in the compact, which makes it a real nice shooter.
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May 28, 2011, 09:52 AM
I haven't shot the XD9 but I have the full size and sub compact PX4 and have shot them a lot.
Excellent guns, reliable and very accurate.
I liked the full size so much I bought the sub compact, although I'm not interested in carrying the gun because (for me) it's too bulky.
A number of people have shot and liked the guns.
May 28, 2011, 11:55 AM
They are all superb guns. No difference in reliability or accuracy. I prefer the PX4 compact as it fits my hand better. That said, I suggest you also consider the XDm compact and pick the one that best fits your hand. You will not go wrong with any of the guns.
May 28, 2011, 01:00 PM
Having shot both, the PX4 sub wins...and that's what I currently carry
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May 28, 2011, 05:43 PM
The Beretta PX4 sc looks real good, but I still prefer the xd sc. I just think I'm more accurate and consistent with the striker fired.
With my DA/SA guns I'm still low and to the right, despite a lot of practice. Whereas with the striker fired I'm dead on accurate.
I also think the xd type grip safety is more convenient, especially in the sub compact size.
May 28, 2011, 05:48 PM
XDm compact.;)
May 28, 2011, 10:11 PM
XD9mmsc with the extended magazine (16 round) fits my hand, easy to control, easy to conceal.
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHanoi Paradise Hotel
We stayed at the sister hotel in Hang Bac street which was very clean and tidy. We left our bags here while we stayed overnight at a couple of trips - all secure. The staff were very helpful and informed us of places to go and things to see.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Hanoi Paradise Hotel
Preis und Qualität stimmen
Das Paradise Hanoi hat eine erstklassige Lage, direkt im Zentrum des alten Viertels. Das Zimmer war sauber und der Service und das Fr�hst�ck sehr gut. Bei dem Preis hatten wir aber mehr von einem deluxe Zimmer erwartet. Das Zimmer hatte zwei Fenster, die nur ins Treppenhaus schauten. Nicht gerade charmant. Nach zwei N�chten sind wir in ein anderes Hotel umgezogen, dass war sch�ner und hatte einen besseren Preis bei gleicher Qualit�t (25 USD).
Le rapport qualité/prix pourrait être meilleur
L'h�tel Paradise Hanoi �tait super bien situ� : en plein centre du vieux quartier. La chambre �tait tr�s propre, le service et le petit d�jeuner corrects.
Mais nous nous attendions � une chambre Deluxe plus belle pour le prix que nous avons pay�. Elle avait deux fen�tres qui donnaient toutes les deux sur le couloir. Pas vraiment g�nial...
Nous sommes partis au bout de deux nuits et nous sommes all�s dans un autre h�tel du m�me quartier qui avait beaucoup plus de charme et offrait une meilleure qualit�, le tout au m�me prix (25 USD).
Price-Quality could be better
The Paradise Hanoi has an excellent location: right in the center of the old Quarter. The room was very clean and the service and breakfast were also ok.
But we expected more for the price of a deluxe room. The room had two windows with only a look at the hall-way. Not very charming...
After two nights we checked out and moved to another hotel in the neighboorhood with much more charm and a better price for the same quality (25 USD).
Horrible Experience in Paradise
We don't understand why the other reviews on this place were so positive. We thought this was an awful place. We arrived at midnight--and even though they knew we were a family of 4, they did not have the room set up for all of us. The first thing we noticed was a cockroach the size of a rodent (my daughter actually thought it was one). The towels had dirty footprints all over them as did the bedspreads.
The breakfast room was equally filthy as we noticed a cluster of ants in our sugar bowl and marching up the wall.
The pool was, as my daughter described, creepy. I am very surprised that anyone thought it was a nice pool.
In fairness, they were appropriately embarrased about all of this, but still had us pay the full amount and tried to have us pay for the airport transfer (which was supposed to be free because we were planning to be there for three nights-we left aftet the first). Many of the problems are due to bad house keeping as the place probably has some potential, but it needs a lot of work.
We thank you very much for your comments on our hotel service and we believe that Hanoi Paradise Hotel improvement is based on all the feed back.
We are so sorry for this matter as it is our unexpected.
We make sure that this matter will never happen again at Hanoi Paradise Hotel.
We open heart to receive all feed back from our royal clients both negatives and positive as we want our client hear the story from both perpectives
Sincerely yours
Home away from home! The BEST hotel in Hanoi
Arriving, we were greeted by a delightful man, whose name I can't remember. He was very interested in our travels and was very proud of his hotel. As I remember, there was lots of very elaborate furniture in the public areas of the hotel.
Our room was fine. It had everything we needed. Decor was a little dated but very comfortable
There were a wide choice of breakfast, it was so great.
The service was spectacluar, very hospitable and the front staff speak good English.
By the looks, it looks like a small hotel from the outside but lushing with wel-decored furniture in the inside. i would definintly stay here again when i return to vietnam
Sure the best hotel in Hanoi.
Tip: They has swimming pool indoor
Clean hotel with great service!
We paid $10US to get a taxi to pick us up from the airport to the hotel. That was a good idea, because another friend who didn't make prior arrangements ended up with a taxi driver who drove him all around Hanoi before dropping him off at his destination! The hotel is located within walking distance (around 8-10 min) to the lake. The free breakfast was really good (wide range of choices). We had Pho. The hotel staff were very polite and provided great service. They gave good suggestions on where to dine in the Old French Quarter
and even offered to arrange massage services for us for $12US per hour in our hotel suites. It was pretty sketchy, but we were so exhausted from our flight that we were delighted at first. 2 ladies ended up coming around midnight and they were such amateurs that when they stopped after 1/2 hour, we still gave them $12 each and were just happy that they were leaving! The next day, we went to Marbert Spa Services and it was a LOT better. However, be aware that Marbert has 2 pamphlets- the prices in the one that we got from the tourist info booth were different from the one that was at the spa. The service I got (body exfoliator/ scrub with massage) was originally $14, but I ended up having to pay $26. But it was still worth it. You might want to confirm the prices before you begin. If you decide to take a private tour to Haloong Bay or Perfume Pagoda, ask around before you settle on a travel agency. They tend to rip you off. We only had time to visit Perfume Pagoda (a 2-hour car ride plus 1-hour row-boat ONE way), and for the 4 of us, a travel agency offered us $300 for a private van plus tour guide for the whole day (and the guy told us it was the best deal in town). We ended up asking around, and finally settled with Vietnam Friendship Travel (11 Hang Hanh, close to the lake), which offered us a final price of $108 for the same package. We had a great time. It was totally crowded and the boat ride was gold! It was rainy and windy when we went, and I felt like a refugee fleeing some country! What an experience! A few interesting facts/ tips:
1) In Toronto, we have Pho and Bun for lunch/ dinner at restaurants. In Vietnam, these are actually breakfast items! It took us a while to find a restaurant serving Pho and Bun! We ended up having a satisfying meal before we left at the airport, 4th floor, in the "food court" (more like a restaurant). I had like 1.5 bowls of Pho, a bowl of Bun and refreshing coconut juice straight from the coconut... all for $5!
2) Do not drink tap water or have ice in drinks. The water is polluted and you will get sick. Ask for chilled drinks without ice.
3) Do not be afraid to bargain- for travel packages or souvenirs.
4) They do not follow traffic laws. Motorists just honk before they cross intersections regardless of the lights and other people on the road. But don't worry, you will be able to learn how to jay-walk (it's the only way to cross roads!)- just follow the locals. :)
Fantastic service with a smile
We rolled up to this hotel late at night. We were welcomed with a big smile, which was very nice. The service was excellent and the hotel couldnt do enough to help us. They booked our tours for us and even when we decided to cancel a tour last minute they managed to get a good partial refund.
The room was very clean and spacious and they also have a swimming pool.
The front desk was very efficient and knowledgeable.
I highly reccomend this hotel for service and value for money!
Servizio fantastico sempre con un sorriso
Siamo arrivati in albergo la sera tardi, ma ci hanno pur sempre accolti con un bel sorriso, il che era veramente piacevole. Il servizio era eccellente e tutti si sono fatti davvero in quattro per noi. Ci hanno prenotato delle escursioni e anche quando ne abbiamo dovuta disdire una all'ultimo minuto, sono riusciti a farci rimborsare un po' di soldi.
La camera era molto pulita e spaziosa e hanno anche una piscina.
Gli addetti alla reception erano molto efficienti e ben informati.
Il servizio offerto e il rapporto qualit�/prezzo mi permettono di consigliare caldamente quest'albergo!
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The end of Vietnam
... Then onto the real meat, which included handcuffs used by the puppet police in South vietnam. And photos of striking workers protesting that the imperialist Americans wouldn't pay the factory workers a living wage. And the Buddhist monk who self immolated in protest against the Americans restricting the Buddhist religion. So a lot of it was obviously jingoistic, but then I'm sure that a lot of what we saw ...
Ped City to Ha Long Bay
... a bike ride which we didn't realise (our hotel pulling some strings again). 8 of the group took part. We ventured by boat over to Cat Ba which is the largest island in Ha Long Bay (12miles from Ha Long City). We cycled in land for about 5km passing through a small traditional village with rice paddies, cows and goats. We took a short walk into the jungle hoping to see monkeys which are now protected due to poachers (some Vietnamese people like to eat monkey ...
Welcome to Hanoi
... to music. They looked to be having a blast, and I was tempted to join except I didn't know the moves! Then off to Van Mieu or The Temple of Literature. The first university of Vietnam, it was built in 1070 and houses several temples and alters dedicated to Confucius. It has multiple gardens, beautiful architecture and Tortoise Stele stone slabs engraved with the names of the scholars who passed the Van Mieu exams between the 15th and ...


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Erie movie theater set to show Oscar marathon
Oscar lovers, rejoice!
But you may want to bring a pillow.
All nine of this year's Academy Award best picture nominees will be playing at Tinseltown over the next two Saturdays as part of Cinemark's Oscar Marathon.
The national movie chain is trucking out the special film festival to only 120 of its nearly 300 theaters across America, with the Summit Township multiplex being one of them.
The marathon begins Saturday with five movies, starting with the indie darling "Beasts of the Southern Wild" at noon. End credits for the final film of the day, the Steven Spielberg biopic "Lincoln," should be rolling at about midnight.
That's right, folks: 12 hours.
On Feb. 23, the marathon starts with the stunning Iranian hostage drama "Argo" and ends three movies and 10 hours later with Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."
"It can be pretty draining," Erie filmmaker John C. Lyons said of movie marathons.
Lyons, curator of the Film at the Erie Art Museum series, said the most movies he's viewed back-to-back in a theater was four, at the Sundance Film Festival. He's seen three consecutive movies a couple of times at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"It helps that the (Tinseltown) marathon is a great lineup of movies," Lyons added.
Movie marathons are nothing new to Tinseltown, 1910 Rotunda Drive, or to theaters across the country.
The AMC and Regal Cinemas theater chains are showing similar Oscar marathons at their movie houses the next two weekends in the run-up to the Academy Awards on Feb. 24.
Tinseltown on Wednesday ran a "Die Hard" marathon, showing the first four installments in the popular Bruce Willis action franchise before debuting "A Good Day to Die Hard," the fifth flick in the series.
Other marathons to run at Tinseltown include the "Twilight" series; "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" before the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises"; the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy on the week "The Hobbit" opened; and "Iron Man," "Iron Man 2," "Thor," "The Hulk" and "Captain America" in the run-up to the Marvel Entertainment blockbuster "The Avengers" this past summer.
Cost for the Oscar marathon is $30 for one day or $50 for both days.
Tinseltown will offer discounts at the concession stand, so people spending half a day inside a dark theater can get a break while loading up on Goobers and popcorn.
Employees at Tinseltown said the theater also will be selling tickets to individual movies in the Oscar marathon at regular prices on a walk-up basis only.
Oscar-nominated short films will be shown today and again Feb. 22 for $10. For a complete schedule, go to www.cinemark.com.
Watching all the best picture nominees before the Academy Awards telecast has long been a point of pride, a notch in your belt for film buffs.
It was easier to do in years past, when there were only five best picture nominees. Recent rule changes now allow up to 10 films to be in the race for the prized statuette.
"It's great," Jamie Grady, director of Mercyhurst University's Institute for Arts & Culture, said about the Oscar marathon. "A lot of these movies kind of came and went because they didn't have big names or weren't action-packed films."
The institute also produces the Maria J. Langer Film Series, which shows independent movies and documentaries inside the university's 250-seat Taylor Little Theatre.
The only best picture nominee in the Langer series' lineup this season was "Argo." It sold out Feb. 1.
"The marathon becomes an event," Grady said. "To see all those movies and then have a favorite to root for on Oscar night, like a sports team in a big game, that's fun."
Tinseltown's Oscar marathon lineup for Saturday is "Beasts of the Southern Wild" at noon, "Amour" at 1:55 p.m., "Life of Pi" at 4:15 p.m., "Les Miserables" at 6:15 p.m. and "Lincoln" at 9:30 p.m.
On Feb 23, the lineup is "Argo" at 1 p.m., "Silver Linings Playbook" at 3:20 p.m., "Zero Dark Thirty" at 5:30 p.m. and "Django Unchained" at 8:20 p.m.
"The second day looks to be a fun day. The first day will be an endurance test," Lyons said after scanning the lineup.
His film series, a project of the Film Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania, is hosting a party on Oscar night, which includes a live telecast of the Academy Awards.
Lyons said the Oscar marathon, and film marathons like it, are primarily for the "superfan."
"It's a nice thing to do with a group of friends," he added. "Makes it an exciting communal event."
GERRY WEISS can be reached at 870-1884 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNweiss.


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11/03/14Alliance MLAs Anna Lo and Judith Cochrane have highlighted the lack of female representation in politics. Both MLAs were taking part in an Assembly debate focussed on encouraging more women to enter public life.
Anna Lo MLA stressed the need for action rather than continuous debate, further highlighting the lack of representation from young people, ethnic minorities and members of the LGBT community in the political arena.
Anna Lo MLA said: "Tribal politics and the lack of delivery on many bread and butter issues can turn women off politics. They can often view the Assembly as a hot house for trivial party politics and bickering.
"However we make important decisions at the Assembly, affecting the daily lives of our population and need both sexes to make informed and balanced decisions. We need more female politicians, not just to highlight women's or family issues, but to give a comprehensive, all-round basis for the decision making process.
"The general frustration with politics is a significant factor – but it's not just women who are not getting involved, but also people with moderate views, young people, ethnic minorities and members of the LGBT community, which must be addressed."
Judith Cochrane MLA added: "In politics, fewer than 20% of parliamentarians worldwide are women, whilst economically women currently hold only 4.6% of the Fortune 500 CEO positions. If this imbalance is to be rectified, we must address the various barriers that are holding women back.
"The inflated egos of some of our male politicians and the culture of political point scoring do little to attract women.
"We must encourage and enable more women to participate in Northern Ireland's often spirited and challenging environment - an environment that would be all the more enriched for such input."
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The Vols beat a very good Virginia Commonwealth team and a seventh-ranked Villanova team in New York City. They whipped No. 3 Pitt in Pittsburgh and subdued a truly gifted Georgia team in Athens. They outplayed No. 8 UConn for much of a 72-61 loss at Hartford. Even in a 49-48 loss at Charlotte the Vols were spectacular defensively, limiting the 49ers to 30.2-percent shooting. Ultimately, Tennessee's only poor effort on the road came in a 68-65 loss at Arkansas.
Conversely, the Vols were abysmal in home-floor losses to Oakland, Southern Cal and College of Charleston. They barely squeaked by against mid-majors Missouri State, Belmont (twice) and UT Martin. They trailed virtually all game in an overtime loss to Florida and had to rally from 17 down to nip Vanderbilt. The only quality performances Tennessee has given on the home hardwood came against Chattanooga (82-62), Memphis (104-84) and LSU (75-53).
It's obvious to those who follow Big Orange hoops that the Vols play with more energy, more passion and more focus on the road than they do at home. Tennessee fans don't understand this trend but, with road games upcoming at Ole Miss on Saturday and at Auburn on Thursday, they're hoping it continues for one more week.
Meanwhile, asking the Vols why they're more intense and successful on the road yields a variety of responses.
"We just know going into road games that you have to be high-energy," senior point guard Melvin Goins said. "You have to not only match the team's intensity but also the crowd's intensity. Everything's against you going on the road, so you have to be focused and on top of your game.
"You're going to make mistakes because the crowd's loud and you're not going to be able to hear Coach sometimes, so you just have to keep fighting on the road. I think we've learned that through these tough road games we've had, so I think we'll be ready to go Saturday."
Junior wing Scotty Hopson suggests that the satisfaction of beating a team in its home gym provides extra motivation.
"I think we relish the opportunity to go into somebody's house and take that game away from them," he said. "We have the focus that we want to out-tough them. Guys know what we're up against (on the road) and we try to take advantage of that."
Sophomore guard Skylar McBee thinks there's a sense of desperation attached to road games that may force the Vols to dig a little deeper.
"I think it's that feeling that your back's against the wall," he said. "It's always tough to go on the road and win. That's always in the back of your mind, and it's a challenge to us. We took care of that so far and, hopefully, we'll go to Ole Miss and take care of it again."
Associate coach Tony Jones, who is filling in for suspended head man Bruce Pearl on game days, believes there is something of a fox-hole mindset at work when the Vols are playing on foreign soil.
"There's an us-against-the-world mentality," he said. "We're in the hotel together, bonding. We know we have to play well. Winning in conference play is tough but our guys have played well on the road all year.
"The game we lost at Charlotte we held Charlotte to 30-percent shooting, We played well; we just couldn't throw it in the ocean (on offense).
"I anticipate us continuing to play well on the road."
Tennessee's Feb. 3 game at Auburn has been designated for national telecast on ESPN2. The Vols and Tigers will tip-off at 8 Central (9 Eastern) at the new Auburn Arena.


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The city of Charleston is poised to spend up to $7.5 million to repave and beautify Cannon and Spring streets downtown ahead of its plan to redirect both routes from their current one-way flow to two-way each.
The fixes will include a variety of "street-scaping" additions, ranging from new curbs to sidewalk ramps for the handicapped and adding 130 new trees, mostly palmettos and crape myrtles.
If all goes to plan, the work should begin early in 2014, with the change in street routing coming around mid-2015.
In recent years the Spring and Cannon street corridor has seen a revival of new businesses sprouting up alongside the area's already established residential homes and apartments. But to keep control of quality-of-life issues, City Council agreed to redirect the routes into two-way traffic, largely as a means of slowing through cars down.
As envisioned, Cannon Street will eventually run two ways from King Street to President Street; Spring Street will run two ways from Meeting Street to the Crosstown.
Parking along the route is expected to stay about the same — allowed on both sides of the streets.
Don Brown, director of capital projects for the city, said that when the work does start, it will be done in sections so that travel along the entire length is not all disrupted at once.
Residents will be given warnings on when to move their cars from the street as the target work advances, he said. About three miles of street-scaping is being addressed.
City Council agreed to make the change more than four years ago. Some of the delay was associated with the construction improvements done to the nearby Crosstown, also known as the Septima Clark Parkway section of U.S. Highway 17.
Spring and Cannon were originally two-way streets, but were converted to one-way traffic about 50 years ago to speed cars through the peninsula from the old Cooper River bridges to U.S. Highway 17.
Charleston City Councilman James Lewis, whose district includes part of the work area, said he was ready for the project to become reality.
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She had a big night at Sunday's Grammy Awards – and Lady Gaga was ready to party at Jimmy Iovine's bash at L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills. The pop star, in all black, was the first guest to perform, playing the piano for the star-studded crowd, which included Kim Kardashian. Also there: Beyoncé, who arrived with hubby Jay-Z. According to a fellow party guest, she "seemed really happy, and he was lovingly rubbing her back."
A pregnant Kate Hudson and boyfriend Matthew Bellamy, fresh off his band Muse's Grammy win for best rock album, kissed and hugged at the bar at Warner Music Group's post-Grammys party sponsored by Audi at Soho House in West Hollywood. Hudson sipped water and snacked on olives while Bellamy doted on her and accepted congratulations through the night.
Jennifer Hudson, satisfying her sweet tooth at the Solstice Sunglasses booth backstage at the Distinctive Assets' Official Talent Gift Lounge at the Grammys. The singer took a taste of son David's frozen yogurt, and kept her little guy nearby as she browsed the wares, eventually picking up $1,400 worth of sunglasses during her visit.
Who was Renée Zellweger's valentine? Boyfriend Bradley Cooper's mother, Gloria! The ladies enjoyed a girls' day at Drybar in L.A., and the actress bought Gloria a 12-pack of blowouts from the salon.
In New Orleans to shoot his latest movie, Contraband, Mark Wahlberg stepped out for dinner with some friends at Morton's the Steakhouse. Though the actor mostly kept to himself during the visit, he was very gracious with the staff – and ordered a New York strip steak.
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text: Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information, by Peter Pirolli (buy)A thorough discussion of information foraging and information scent by the inventor of these concepts. As the book title indicates, this is a rather theoretical book: figuring out the implications for your company's Internet strategy is left as an exercise for the reader. But this is the ultimate source if you want to understand why the Web works the way it does and why users behave the way they do. Probably the most important book ever published about Web design (even though it's not about Web design!).


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Edward John "Ned" Maher, the former chairman and chief executive officer of H.C. Boerner, a former food brokerage company in Great Neck, N.Y., and vice president of The Harvey Group, which acquired H.C. Boerner in the 1960s, died March 8. Maher was predeceased by his wife, Lillian. Survivors include four children and four grandchildren. He also served as a U.S. Army captain in World War II, where he was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
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Robert Sherwood wrote:[color=blue]
> More than that; hobbyists, however enlightened, cannot provide continuing
> funding for Plan 9 development. Witness current hardware support. Plan 9
> has
> to grow or eventually die.
The overall 'computerish' and network worlds are now large enough that even a
very small niche can remain viable.
So I don't know that plan9 has to 'grow' as much as it has to be seen as 'of
value' and still an environment where ideas are put into practice that are NOT
done [well | at all] elsewhere. Much as is the case with a fair number of
'embedded' OS.
IOW - it has to be seen as 'useful' to enough folks - be they students,
researchers, purely experimenters, or pragmatists with specialized 'real world'
(read 'commercial') applications not as well served with other tools.
Whether it [still | ever ] [does | did ] any/all of those things is a separate
issue from mass popularity or 'growth'.
That said - I have not personally detected a particularly 'comfortable' level of
published evidence in that direction.
Even Vita Nuova's news releases seem few and far between, as if maintenance of a
legacy base and a design-win every few *years* is all that is going on.


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WHEN MY daughter entered kindergarten in a Philadelphia public school, my husband and I knew by the end of the first week that there was trouble with a teacher. Over the next month, it got worse - so much worse that we got ready to pull our kid out of the school.
I was filled with remorse, imagining the "I told you so" conversations I'd have with friends who'd advised us against using the city's public-education system. They'd chosen private school for their children or had moved to the suburbs to avoid just the kind of nonsense my husband and I had stupidly subjected our kid to.


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Google sues scammers
I was wondering so many scam website where they claim Google Pays them for adding links to Google and finally some action from Google.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google filed a lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants for allegedly using the company's name and colorful logo to promote fraudulent work-at-home money-making schemes.
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hmm, these scams are there for a while now and they will again popup under a different company after sometime...
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scamming is one thing that never stops. I agree with "urstop ^^"... that whatever happens after this... but the same company or some other will come up again different name and ads.
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Thats what even Officials says but atleast some would be saved from such scams.
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Nat Fein Signed 11 x 14-Inch Photo - "The Babe Bows Out" - Pulitzer Prize Winning Photograph
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Large-format 11 x 14-inch photo of "The Babe Bows Out" taken by noted photographer Nat Fein (1914-2000). The haunting image, capturing Babe Ruth during his final appearance at Yankee Stadium on June 13, 1948, has been signed by Fein in gold marker ("10") in the lower right corner. This extraordinary print from the original negative was purchased directly from the photographer in the 1980s. This image earned photographer Nat Fein the Pulitzer Prize for photography and is perhaps the single most famous sports photograph of all time. Today, it remains the most enduring image of Ruth ever taken, and is featured in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and at the Smithsonian Institute. This photo was taken on June 13, 1948, when the Yankees commemorated the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium by inviting all the members of the 1923 team to join them in the celebration. In conjunction with that ceremony, the team also chose to honor Babe Ruth by retiring his number. Ruth was gravely ill with the cancer at the time (he died just two months later); however, he was determined not to let the fans down. In this photograph he is captured for the last time in a New York Yankees uniform. Out of all the photographers present on that memorable day, one man captured the essence of the event in a single image: Nat Fein of the New York Herald Tribune . Fein knelt behind Ruth, aimed his Speed Graphic camera, and captured a priceless moment in American sports history. "Babe Ruth Bows Out" ran on the front page the next day and later became the first sports photograph to earn a Pulitzer Prize. Fein was asked why he broke a fundamental rule of photography and took the shot without showing Ruth's face. "The retiring of No. 3 was the story. You didn't need to see the Babe's face to recognize him. You'd recognize his great hulk and spindly legs anyplace. No one else had that particular angle, so it was a little something different." Original prints of this famous photo personally created and signed by Fein are extremely desirable and ideal for display. Near Mint condition with flawless contrast. Matted and framed to total dimensions of 18 x 15 inches. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000+ SOLD FOR $3,231.25
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Interesting. Watch how humanity spreads like a mold spore. I hope the ancients are right. I hope the annunaki come to reclaim this planet and disinfect it from humans.
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Freedom and Work
Crooked Timber just posted an article that discusses the posts I've written about the workplace. I enjoyed reading it (also- these follow ups) and I've been thinking about where we disagree. One charge is that I either am a garden-variety liberal or I am not a defender of freedom. Maybe there is some truth to the first claim, though I value economic freedom and oppose paternalism more than other garden-variety liberals. In any case, this re-labeling doesn't bother me too much if the libertarian label is all that is holding people back from accepting the arguments. Why is it some kind of 'gotcha' to say I'm not a libertarian? Why would the name matter when what we really care about is the view?
What does bother me is the claim that I am not a defender of freedom. Defending freedom is a pretty big part of my practical identity! So of course I agree that neither employers nor employees should impermissibly coerce or deceive people. I think what is going on here is that I defend a vision of freedom that Bertram, Robin, and Gourevitch (BRG) reject. This is where the action is so I will try to say a bit more about it here. The questions are 1) whether the workplace is usually the kind of thing that impermissibly undermines freedom and 2) whether further limits on freedom are the solution.
As I've written before, just calling something 'coercive' doesn't get us very far in knowing whether it is an impermissible limit on our freedom. What we really care about is whether interference violated someone's rights. BRG seem to think that impermissible violations occur any time someone is compelled by the penalty of getting fired to do something that she did not explicitly consent to. On this view, labor arrangements are often impermissibly coercive because getting fired is so devastating that workers are at the mercy of bosses.
I'm with Alex Tabarrok in thinking that this definition is too broad because it would include a lot of practices that are just voluntary mutual exchange. An employer usually does not violate your rights when she exercises her right to stop paying you even if it would be bad for you if she did. Impermissible coercion would require an antecedent entitlement to continued employment and wages. I'm open to this possibility in some cases. For example I find Sophia Moreau's recent paper about discrimination pretty compelling. Still, I doubt such entitlements or obligations exist in most cases.
BRG are especially concerned with employer's power to influence our private lives. Why is Corey Robin so concerned with public officials' off-duty activities but he thinks that workers shouldn't ever be judged for their off-duty behavior? We ask about the private lives of officials for the same reasons that employers ask for information about the private lives of their employees—employees influence the fate of the company, represent the company, and act on its behalf. Employees can refuse of course, and employers can choose other workers just as voters can choose not to elect a president who refuses to disclose his finances. Often the reasons for private intrusions like drug tests and background checks are even stronger though, insofar as they are used to promote coworkers' and consumers' safety, to protect employers from theft, or to prevent rare cases of disability fraud. Concern with the private sphere aims to address wrongdoing in these cases. Employers are not trying to oppress workers. Why would they?
Say we buy the idea that an employer's power to fire makes workers too vulnerable because unemployment is a serious harm. Even then, I have suggested that a basic income could mitigate the badness of unemployment and thereby insulate workers from this kind of vulnerability at work. BRG have less affection for the UBI. They say that I overlook the non-monetary costs of leaving a job, (e.g. you'll miss your coworkers.) Again, I agree that it's bad for workers when they miss their pals but this is only an impermissible penalty to impose on people if they are entitled to retain the non-monetary benefits of employment. Such a right is over-inclusive. For example, this theory would render temporary employment agreements morally wrong because they ultimately impose non-monetary costs on employees at the end of the contract.
Another claim is that the basic income would not be feasible. This is an empirical point, but people on the Left and Right have suggested that a UBI can be economically feasible, perhaps even with our current level of social welfare spending. In any case, I am surprised to find advocates of workplace democracy complaining that my UBI proposal is not economically and politically feasible, and arguments about a policy's current political feasibility are not a strike against the justice of any policy.
Finally, BRG propose a thought experiment that is meant to illustrate that good exit options (like a UBI) do not adequately address the tyranny of the workplace:
The limitations of exit as an instrument of freedom can be illustrated by a simple analogy. Suppose Canada were a dictatorship, but the United States welcomed anyone who wished to leave, paid for her ticket and promised her a job. Would that mean that anyone who stayed behind was free?
Yet the workplace isn't like the Canadian dictatorship because states are territorial, non-voluntary associations and the workplace is not. We are not born into our workplaces. I am more skeptical about political leaders' rights to rule us than employers' rights to rule the companies they created. Employers secure the actual consent of their workers while few of us actually consent to political leaders. These asymmetries are normatively important.
To make the Canadian analogy more apt, imagine that Canada was unpopulated but for one person who justly owned all the land. Say he put an ad in the paper that said, "Residents wanted! Beautiful camping and Tim Horton's Coffee! Must submit to dictatorial rule—cancel any time!" Then, if people moved to Canada for the camping, but found the laws to be too much, they could move on back to the States. Maybe the dictator is still doing something wrong, but we wouldn't find this scenario nearly as problematic. In fact, this set-up kind of sounds like a homeowners association to me.
This is the heart of our disagreement. BRG think that workers are entitled to the benefits of employment unless they do something that is obviously wrong. They claim that this right requires a lot of regulation and state interference. The idea is that employees should be able to exercise all their rights in the workplace without fear of getting fired for doing so. On this view employees may even have political rights to control their workplace.
I think that all workers are entitled to make employment agreements for themselves without state interference. Employers have rights to stop extending the benefits of employment to their particular workers just as employees have rights to quit. Employers can permissibly place conditions on employment just as employees can negotiate the terms of their contracts when they are hired. While I agree that no one is entitled to harm others, employers and employees may have rights to do wrong. This means that the law should not prohibit wrongful behavior in all cases. This doesn't mean that horrible bosses and bad employees act permissibly; I just doubt that further limits on occupational freedom are the right tool to address workplace unfreedom.
I suspect that some of this controversy is because the Crooked Timber crew thinks that my proposal would fail to maximize freedom on balance. I do not focus on the balance of freedom because I think that free choices should be respected, not maximized.
Where does this leave us? BRG propose law, regulation, and economic democracy. They call it more voice. I call it more bosses. I see that BRG have a different conception of rights and freedom. What I still don't see is why workplace democracy and regulation would be liberating on any conception of freedom. Why are these self-proclaimed liberals are so hostile to the UBI? Do they really think that right to own productive property and contract are so insignificant that they can be radically curtailed and even eliminated without the state and the workplace becoming less free? How did we get to this point where the libertarians are the vocal advocates of a basic income while the Marxist liberals are arguing that what workers really need is less choice?
I'm a confirmed liberal, but I don't find a lot to disagree with you about here. In theory, a UBI sounds like a great thing and could easily obviate the need for a whole lot of workplace regulation, minimum wage laws, etc. But that's just theory. Seriously, do you really see such a thing happening anytime in the foreseeable future? More to the point, looking back, can you identify a time in the past century when such a proposal would have been taken seriously? Even during the New Deal and Great Society reform eras?
I wish I were wrong, but I doubt it. And given that empirical, political reality, advocating tearing out existing workplace protections (totally viable if Republicans gain the upper hand) with a totally unobtainable panacea like a UBI is nakedly disingenuous.
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Who is Crooked Timber? Not to hate too much, but there doesn't seem to be much substance there. It would appear that they are condoning intervention in every case where leverage is involved. Where are the limits?
Really enjoyed the line about maximizing freedom.
I find discussions about whether x is coercive to be not only really frustrating (abstract nouns can often be defined in several ways, none obviously 'correct'), but generally unhelpful in resolving whether x is morally permissible. Particularly, questions revolving around whether the exit option has to be of some decent quality for the person's choice to qualify as voluntary (or the offer coercive) are really quite maddening; they hinge often on very subjective judgments about what makes an option 'acceptable' or 'etnertainable.'
To me, the best answer to the employer/employee issue is to start with two questions: (a) is what each party is offering (money, labor) theirs to offer, and hence, theirs to negotiate with, and (b) is either party artificially making the other's worse off than it would be had the exchange not been offered at all.
So, the employer likely owns or has right to the money they are offering, and the laborer, the labor she is offering. To my mind, that means there should be a very strong presumption that both parties have a right to negotiate the terms under which they will exchange what they have for what they want. (I generally loathe the idea that a third party can put terms on my voluntary exchanges with others, unless there is a strong reason by way of externality.)
And in most cases, "do x or your fired" means that the speaker is only threatening to leave the other in ONLY as bad off a position as she was had the exchange never happened in the first place. It is hard for me to see that as coercion, per se, because what is really going on because no one is artificially making the other's worst-off option worse than it naturally was. (There are exceptions; like when a boss says to do x or the employee will be fired and blacklisted, etc.)
A possible example of how the fired employee might be worse off, is if she had to move to a different town to take the job (i.e. put lots of money into moving, and had to leave behind lots of "human capital" in terms of friends / connections / knowledge of the local economy / etc.), only to be fired and find herself in a new town starting from zero.
"A possible example of how the fired employee might be worse off, is if she had to move to a different town to take the job …"
I understand how one could say that this is the employer (threatening to fire her) making her worse off than she'd have been had she not taken the job in the first place, but to me, her moving was part of her taking the job. In threatening to fire, the employer is not making this relocated worker worse off than she would be had the job not been offered, because her agreeing to move WAS PART OF THE JOB OFFER.
Blacklisting is a rather common practice.
Often, modern liberals find it necessary to violate the rights of individuals, especially if those individuals are business owners, managers, investors or entrepreneurs, in order to maximize advantage for approved-of groups. Political interventionism over economic liberty, which is basically the underlying emphasis of social democracy — use capitalism through political power to maximize social justice.
I would not have bought my condo if the rules were objectionable. I would not have moved back to Seattle if the municipal code was unacceptable. I can move out of Washington State if the RCW becomes unacceptable. If I didn't like my job I could have quit. Some day people will be able to leave the world if they think some other planet is more acceptable.
Damien S.
Your statements assume the privilege of having lots of different choices. If all the employers who'll hire you will make you pee on camera, if all the municipalities have obnoxious zoning laws, then you don't have much choice, other than who you'll pee in front of and exactly which obnoxious regulations you'll live under.
As for switching jobs, I wouldn't put much weight on "will miss friends", I'd put it on the availability of jobs. The world faced by a programmer in Silicon Valley is a lot different from that faced by a specialist in demand by only a few large companies in the world (Boeing and aero engineers, perhaps?) that like to locate factories in the boonies, let alone someone without in-demand skills of any sort. And even programmers can get treated shittily, though paid well for it (would you like less pay but more reasonable working hours and European vacation? Good luck!)
Of course, how many choices you have affects how much bargaining power you have and how much freedom you have to choose which rules you will submit to.
But, to me, the basic question is still whether the employer is making you worse off by offering the job in the first place. If you accepted the job and its terms (assuming that you understood the terms), then one MUST presume that you believed the trade-off was worth making. Before taking the job, you had no job and no income, but could pee where and when you wanted, and after taking the job, you have a job and income, but cannot pee where and when you want. Presumably, the fact that the you took the job indicates that you thought freedom-of-urination was worth trading for a job and money, lest you wouldn't have done the deal.
Yes, you'd be better with a job and freedom-of-urination, but what I don't think can be disputed is that you believed (probably rightly) accepting the job in question makes you better off than not accepting the job.
But, to me, the basic question is still whether the employer is making you worse off by offering the job in the first place."
Ok, I counter with this basic question:
Is the employee making the employer worse off by self-managing the relationship between her bladder and her work?
Things that one might want to demonstrate in order to show otherwise:
1. the manager has a greater incentive to increase the employees' productivity than the employees themselves
2. the manager knows how to increase employee productivity better than the employees themselves
One might also want to interrogate the incentives of any pee-nazis.
For example, do they have an incentive to…
1. shirk covering for peeing employees
2. appear to have control over workplace productivity
3. create policies which allow them to attribute responsibility for falls in productivity away from themselves
4. create policies which strengthen their ability to fire workers at will
5. create policies which allow them to demean their employees
Or, in other words, might their policies have nothing to do with increasing marginal productivity?
How did we get to this point where the libertarians are the vocal
advocates of a basic income while the Marxist liberals are arguing that
what workers really need is less choice?
It's not a long trip; it only requires the libertarian to embrace the leanest of welfare states and the liberal to stand in place. Marxist liberal rhetoric supports the worker, but their preferred policies never have, as far as I know.
"In theory, a UBI sounds like a great thing and could easily obviate the need for a whole lot of workplace regulation, minimum wage laws, etc. But that's just theory"
Say every citizen was sent an identical debit card deposit every month and every other federal cash payment including Social Security was cancelled – pensions excepted because a pension was supposed to be one leg of retirement income. Would the total outlay be more than the sum of all the bits and pieces?
Say a source of free energy was invented and robots did all the work that humans did not WANT to do (gratis, for the status). Would there not still be a social food chain?
Damien S.
"Employers are not trying to oppress workers. Why would they?"
Because people often like to power trip and lord it over others. Hell, it's a basic accusation libertarians such as Fernando Teson level at liberals.
"Why is Corey Robin so concerned with public officials' off-duty activities but he thinks that workers shouldn't ever be judged for their off-duty behavior?"
Because people who seek power over others should be held to a higher standard of scrutiny? "These asymmetries are normatively important"
"the libertarians are the vocal advocates of a basic income"
Be fair: a few libertarians. Most will denounce such a thing as socialism funded by government theft.
"the Marxist liberals"
Do you know that BRG view themselves as Marxist, or are you descending into typical libertarian mislabeling? "Marxist" and "liberals" usually don't go well together. And UBI has had advocates from all across the left-right spectrum; don't inflate your argument with them into something more significant than it is, for either libertarians or liberals.
Me, I'm sympathetic to both UBI and freedom to contract or not contract, subject to externality considerations. OTOH, I'm far from convinced that a substantial UBI is economically feasible — ahem, incentives — let alone politically practical. More cautiously I'd opt for citizen's grant — in addition to free education — and government jobs program, in addition to the usual unemployment insurance.
Jessica Flanigan
Hi Damien,
1- You're right, some people are jerks that just want to oppress people, I probably shouldn't have generalized like that
2- Employees often have power over others too, not just over other employees, but power over the fate of the company.
3- I have an earlier post on the UBI which includes a round up of a lot of libertarians all of whom believe in the basic income. It may not be everyone, but it's not the exception either.
4- Well, I'm friends with Alex and he calls himself a Marxist all the time. Chris Bertram has written a lot on Marx and seems to endorse some version of what the Analytical Marxists believe in his work. Corey Robin, who knows? But all of them are 'marxist liberals' in contrast to anarchist marxists because they advocate at least in the short run for statist solutions to promote a marxist idea of freedom or egalitarianism, or that is how I meant the term.
5- I think a UBI is financially feasible, and I don't really care if it is politically practical or not. Why would you favor a government jobs program instead of a UBI?
By your definition, Noam Chomsky is a "Marxist liberal," which is just about the funniest thing I've heard today.
Jessica Flanigan
And.. i should clarify on point 4. I actually don't realy care about the labels. Maybe they want to disavow that label i pinned on them, like I said i care more about the view than the labels anyhow. The point is, they have a vision of freedom that seems to require something in that ballpark. That quip just meant to point out the irony that the defenders of ::their:: vision of freedom are advocating for pretty intrusive limits on labor freedom and are so worried that my UBI proposal is not feasible.
Anyhow, as with so much on the internet, that aside is probably going to get me in trouble, but it doesn't matter if they identify as marxist types or liberals or whatever, the point of the post was about different views of freedom.
I wish that was what we were talking about, instead of which label is best..
Damien S.
"that what workers really need is less choice"
Of course, sometimes limiting one's choices leads to better outcomes. In the game of chicken, say — the guy who can't swerve will beat rational people with the freedom to chicken out. Or the prisoner's dilemma; mutual coercion to cooperate leads to a better outcome than having the freedom to fall into the mutual defection trap.
If 99 workers want X, and 1 worker is willing to take Y, and if this would cause the other 99 to be forced to take Y, then removing Y from the table of legal options will be pretty attractive, and arguably less coercive in real terms.
Why is it some kind of 'gotcha' to say I'm not a FOOist? Why would
the name matter when what we really care about is the view?
It doesn't matter to the person being gotcha'd, but it does matter other more-or-less FOOist people. This is because FOOism is not some platonic ideal, it is a label with rough description that helps people with partially similar views find each other and cooperate to push those views. Those people have an interest in managing the description.
Now say the rival BARists define FOOism in a way that says it should compel the eating of babies. Then correct FOOist response is: "well screw your crazy definitions!" (assuming here that they do not in fact eat babies). If instead member of the arguably-FOOist coalition timidly says "well since I don't eat babies, then I am not a FOOist" then they lose their coalition.
To her credit, Jessica Flanigan has not been timid. She has come out swinging. Good for her.
My lord is that crooked timber piece polemical. Just as an obvious response, the employee has "coercive" power or, whatever we're calling it, over the employer as well. "Pay me this or I won't show up". It's just a free exchange, and recasting this as coercion is kind of odd as far as I see it.
The response is that the employer has more "leverage", but that really just comes down to that the employer is probably wealthier. This reminds me of a liberal who tried to tell me that businesses discriminate against poor people (because they only sell you things if you pay them :P). The key here to get more leverage in this relationship is just to raise your value to the employer, by getting an education, or being a hard worker, or finding a career where there's a lot of competition for labor. That means you're bringing more to the table, and you have other options if your employer doesn't treat you the way you like. One trick for getting the things you want in life is working hard. And try to keep some savings so that you can quit if necessary.
From a societal perspective, if we're trying to make things better, one problem to remedy is that far too many workers have been failed by our educational system. 1/5 of Americans are functionally illiterate, which means they get poor jobs, and they have to put up with whatever their boss tells them. Or cut taxes, or improve our infrastructure, or cut trade barriers, or reduce regulations. All these things will raise worker productivity and therefore their bargaining power.
The best response to this debate was Yglesias', while making his classic pitch for higher inflation, that this really depends on the economy and on full employment. High unemployment means horrible bosses, cuz it's them or the breadline. This also cuts against Crooked Timber's spiel I think, because unionization and the lower labor mobility that comes with that hurts the economy. I say, give Americans a working economy and we can take care of ourselves. The last thing we need is Crooked Timber's "help".
PS- I take that back. Here's Marginal Revolution's response…
Cowen- http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/libertarianism-and-the-workplace.html
Tabarrok- http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/libertarianism-and-the-workplace-ii.html
Also, concerning whether a workplace is a "dictatorship", of course it is. I have to do what my boss says or she will fire me. This is unpleasant, but about as surprising as "rain is unpleasantly wet". Work sucks, that's just how it is.
The workplace is also somebody's property, somebody who is not me. Meanwhile, I have my own property. If they don't want me on theirs, I can not go there: if I don't want them on mine, they can not go there. This is fine by me. I support property rights because I'm a property owner too.
Also I'm an employer of state employees as a tax payer, including the "workplace democracy" of the California Prison Guard's Union, who democratically decided that they should be payed more than me, the guy who's footing their bill, and democratically decided that more of their employers should be locked up for non-violent offenses so that there will be a need for more prison guards.
Yeah, I want them watched on CCTV, and drug tested, because many of those employees are smuggling drugs and working for the gangs. And their Union gets them off. Sometimes employees need to be treated less well.
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Brian Shea
I hope you don't mind my noting two places where I think your post misses the thrust of what BRG are saying, and I think something interesting got lost.
"Why are these self-proclaimed liberals so hostile to the UBI? … How did we get to this point where the libertarians are the vocal advocates of a basic income while the Marxist liberals are arguing that what workers really need is less choice?"
This strikes me as inaccurate. BRG say that
There's no doubt that a far heftier UBI—one that allowed a single person to live more than an impoverished existence—would offer a reasonable alternative at the moment of contract. It's not at all clear, however, that even a robust UBI would constitute a reasonable alternative at the moment of exit, when an employee must consider all the costs (financial and otherwise) of leaving her job and all the sunk costs she'll never recover,
and also also ask "whether a large enough UBI to make entry and exit genuinely voluntary could be financed with whatever taxes [Bleeding Heart Libertarians] consider to be just." For what it's worth, I happen to be supportive of a UBI, and think (1) that their point is not hostile but a reasonable thing to consider in weighing the virtues of a UBI, and (2) that the tax question is particularly relevant to bring up to authors who identify as libertarian. They do say that in their opinion a UBI of eleven to fifteen thousand dollars annual would not constitute "a reasonable alternative to work", but that does not imply any hostility to the UBI idea.
By the way, I'm fairly sure Peter Frase would not identify as a liberal (Marxist, probably), and he's very far from hostile to a UBI [1, 2]. I think that some of Seth Ackerman's [3, 4] concerns about a UBI are interesting—both on their merits, and also to illustrate that concerns about the limits of a UBI arise entirely within lefty discussion. I believe that BRG, Ackerman, and also commenters here have all raised concerns about a UBI. People seem to disagree about the strengths of a UBI regardless of the politics of the particular advocate or skeptic involved.
Finally, the claim BRG "are arguing that what workers really need is less choice" seems to be a judgment and not a description of their view. I'm not sure I wholly follow why BRG think that a UBI would have significantly more effect at the point of entrance than exit. My current best guess is that they think the fact that someone is considering taking a particular job at all basically controls for entanglements, sunk costs, transaction costs, etc in a way that doesn't hold when someone considers leaving a particular job. I do not read them as suggesting that workers should have less choice or that a UBI would give workers less choice. I think they're questioning the extent to which a UBI gives workers more choice—particularly when it comes to exit.
"They say that I overlook the non-monetary costs of leaving a job, (e.g. you'll miss your coworkers.) Again, I agree that it's bad for workers when they miss their pals but this is only an impermissible penalty to impose on people if they are entitled to retain the non-monetary benefits of employment."
Again, this strikes me as inaccurate. BRG do not claim that limits or weaknesses of the exit option stem from "missing your pals". Instead they say
Anyone who has been in a job for a while, who has committed to a mortgage, has children in school and shares her life with a partner, knows that just walking out, with an income stream committed months or years ahead, is a very bad idea unless they have something definite lined up. … Men and women who have worked in a place for years may be embedded in a network of relations—with co-workers, clients, suppliers, and so on—that constitute a major part of their world. They live in communities where their children attend schools, their partners work, and they have built lives. They may be in a career where entry opportunities are easier when young and have devoted themselves to a profession they will be lucky to get back into if they walk out.
One may ultimately hold that these are not significant limits to exercising exit, but glossing them as "missing your pals" does not address the points that BRG did in fact make. Also, I did not read them as claiming that employees had some entitlement to these things, rather that these are reasons that exit can be a weak option.
Anyway, like I said before, I'm more than sympathetic to the UBI idea. That's probably why I think discussion of how much it does or does not strengthen exit or effect a "capitalism among consenting adults" [5] would be interesting to read.
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