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Listed below are comments made by beemoh between Thursday, 13th November 2008 and Monday, 5th October 2009.

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Benefit cuts consensus? 11:18am on 05 Oct 2009 "I would support a reform and don't see why I should pay my taxes to support people who could actually work in an office or supermarket check out."

Because some of us would like a proper job instead? The rise in joblessness is more complicated than a recession or the invisible "workshy" and has much more to do with that there's not much left in the UK other than sitting decomposing in some menial minimum wage job, and there's only a certain amount of that to go around at the best of times.

If any future government is serious about getting people off benefits and into work, then they need to work harder to bring a range of industries to the nation.
New version of BBC iPlayer for PS3 now available 12:59pm on 07 Sep 2009 Glad to see the console versions of iPlayer are being maintained- is there any news on the Wii version, which seems to have ceased to function since the Wii Internet Channel was updated?
Weekly Bonus Question 11:38am on 24 Jul 2009 Is this actually just a statement of fact? "The answer is the size of spain."
Weekly Bonus Question 11:09am on 17 Jul 2009 When choosing an animal to include in the name of a pub, which two would be the most acceptable?
the web is... too good for us? 10:26pm on 10 Jul 2009 "People talked about the levelling ground of the web, where class, gender, race and physical ability didn't matter, where everyone could be self-actualised, where society could transcend the physical, graduating into the cerebral.

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Almost immediately, people started establishing boundaries, putting flags in the virtual sand, declaring ownership of thoughts, ideas, concepts. Hierarchies started to form, at first based on the technological prowess of the so-called Wizards of online communities, who had access to and could amend the back-end servers and databases that ran the consensual hallucinations people were operating in"

On the other hand, these hierarchies are smaller and more fragile than those that stood before it, and are eroding the established ones day by day.

It is certainly too much to ask that everybody gets to be equal- not everybody *wants* to be equal, some people lack the skills to run a community and would prefer to be part of someone else's, and that's fine- but we're far from being in a position to claim that the internet has failed as a leveller.

It's silly to expect that on day one of the internet, News Corporation and Disney were going to immediately implode and that we'd all be one-man shows doing our respective things on our own, but there's no getting around that new companies that used the internet well such as Google and Valve, as well as established-but-not-hyperhuge companies like Apple, in getting their status of large corporations have, while not reaching the heady heights of News Corp and Disney, have certainly whittle away part of the leaders in their respective fields- and it takes a company the sie of Google to make a significant difference.

Let's face it, the biggest threat YouTube poses to ITV isn't piracy of their programmes but people watching non-broadcast videos on the website.

The next people to come along won't ever be as big as Google is now- but they will take their chunk out of the bigs and everything will gradually get, well, leveller.

Again, probably still very idealist. People will always be above or below others. But we've certainly seen the back of oligarchies of a certain size.

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Blavatnik offers Setanta lifeline 9:42pm on 12 Jun 2009 Good to know that choice of channel in the sports arena has a stay of execution.

Now here's hoping one player or the other will show something other than football. (Unless the BBC want to jump in with some BBL coverage... ;p)
Caption Competition 4:40pm on 07 May 2009 After being surprised by Gunter, Richard O'Brien /literally/ jumped out of his skin.
Red Button Arcade 4:12pm on 25 Mar 2009 I'm going to have to disagree with galund here, while these games *themselves* are unlikely to provide value to the licence payer on any level, I can see where this research can be used to create value if applied correctly.

Although I do think the most important question is: who in the TV Platforms Group has the highest Nibbler score? ;P
Map of the Week - Murder UK 7:08pm on 15 Dec 2008 So how long before somebody in the comments blames this entirely on:

a. Asylum Seekers and other Immigrants
b. Videogames, or
c. Rap Music?

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'Addicted' to Warcraft? 4:26pm on 13 Nov 2008 @109

"normal social life"
"real people not virtual"
"different choices in life"
"new friends instead of virtual friends."
"normal activity"

I think we have the root of the problem as far as this article is concerned. Why do you view playing games as abnormal? Why can't WoW be considered a "normal" activity? Why can't the people you know online be considered "real" friends?

While I'm not going to make any comment on how you've handled the matter of your son, it seems that you- and indeed a lot of people- are less upset at someone having a harmful hobby as an unpopular one- and this attitude tends to push vulnerable people further away.

As an example, I personally prefer basketball to football- as there is no basketball on mainstream TV, nor does it see newspaper coverage, there isn't a team nearby and I'm the only person I know in real life interested in it, as a result all my coverage, all my discussion comes via the internet- I cannot go to the pub and watch there, and if I could, I'd have nobody to talk about it with.

How is this different? Do I have a basketball addiction? Am I abnormal? Would I be making "different choices in life", and have a "normal social life" if I liked a "normal activity" like football?

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