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Absolutely. Especially since I've been hearing his next album is supposed to be really, really good. Could be a turning point.

With that history it's nice they got their own month.

Gets shortest month of the year

I was hoping it would be another epic tag team story. "You're free now." Another sad drift into serious acting.

Don't recall this ever happening. I have seen him live though and he is awesome. People will scrape the bottom of the barrel to criticize the man. His next album is going to be awesome, and that's just too bad.

I'd certainly love to see David Spade make more jokes.

Pretty even for me.

I didn't listen to either

Best wishes to rock4eva. I can't say I've had to deal with anything remotely close so she must be brave to battle and live through the past events and what she's going through now. I certainly wish the best.

"British woman "overdoses" on marijuana. Lol"

Except that's not funny at the very least.

Except? Did you extend any criticism to the OP and 3 pages of gawking? I guess some drug deaths are funnier than others.

What did you hope to accomplish with that post?

O_o You know what, never mind.

Almost as funny as dying from heroin.

I think as a film though, it gets repetitive a little.

There are many classic scenes, very funny scenes, and also very good storytelling scenes, but the film meandered too much to please the shock jocks out there, scenes which should have been left for the DVD

You 'get it' after a while, there is no need to keep repeating certain scenes at such length where you are just setting a scene rather than telling a story

As a story, it was 2 hours, 2 hours 10 max

I didn't want the movie to end. I wanted the party to keep going. All the above is true but watching it I didn't care. I didn't compare it to any other movie I had viewed before and seriously just eagerly awaited what shocking scenes would come up next. To me it was just an amazing experience to see Leonardo DiCaprio directed by Scorsese in shameless scenes that were as crude as Beavis and Butthead. The ruthless lengths they went to tell the uncensored story was bewildering. I think 3-5 years from now a lot of mainstream movies will be made like this. Every time Jonah Hill got camera time you knew something was going to happen.

I totally agree. Oasis are fucking rank from their worst to even their best. Totally rank.

Don't play it again Sam. Seriously don't.

Every day.

I love that stuff but I have to see what I'm doing.

Unfortunately I wasn't smart enough to take CS. I was failing introduction to C++ so I had to look elsewhere. I focused on IS which is CS for the lazy and stupid.

Visual Studio is awesome because it is object orientated programming. Totally cool.

I know HTML too, but that barely provides a purpose anymore.

I used to know C, C++, and Java. Funny those succeeding languages were supposed to be the perfect. I never took a programming course and just taught myself by copying code from a book. I liked C++ the most. I was a shitty programmer because I would just rely on Devils Bloodshed and JCreator IDEs and I would keep updating code until there were no more error messages caught . Most good programmers just use a text file from what I've discerned.

Languages come and go but HTML and javascript are so widely depended on I doubt anything will replace it in the near future. I still work with it every day at work because it is a necessity even though it would never appear in my job description. If I were to study anything more in depth it would VB in Excel for my job.

I bet ThinkAboutYou could have a lot to say.

Has everyone forgotten about MPC3000. That asshole could barely do 16000 bpm.

vs.

I changed the title but I'm too lazy to change the pictures.

They should collab and make the smoothest track eva.

I get what Red is saying. This was from a bygone era and I think that Belfort will become humanized by it all. Straight stockbrokers are pretty much gone. He did basically steal from poor people and then eventually wealthier people and the movie didn't spend any time showing how he affected their lives. It happened when I watched the movie too. I couldn't help but enjoy the entertainment. I stopped analyzing it and just wanted to see what would happen next. Especially at the end where I guess you are supposed to feel sorry for him but it's like, wait, he helped investors lose $100M gets to walk around. I did envy the life he had and it is kind of a shame that Belfort will be partly redeemed by the movie and made a celebrity. I can't say I don't wish I could have had everything he had. I used to admire Charlie Sheen when he was "Winning!" but the smoke clears and you realize he is just a disgusting human being that treats his family like shit. When I was watching the movie I actually did want to see Belfort win somehow, especially when they were being investigated and everyone kept quiet. The movie does a good job of making you empathize in his favor.

To me it was satire like, the way Dr. Strangelove wasn't supposed to make killing hundreds of millions of people cartoonishly funny, but demonstrate how truly absurdly insane it was. The Wolf of Wallstreet could have the same effect, making people really distrust people in the finance industry which I think is necessary. The moment where Hanna talks about reinvesting his clients gains just to earn more commissions is tantamount to "churning" which many people are unfamiliar with but definitely should be. A lot of the financial schemes outlined in movies are complex in general but is the very, very, first movie to my knowledge that outlays what meaningless work a lot of brokers get paid to do other than answer the phone. Brokers and financial advisors should be compensated for the time they spend with clients but it goes without saying that a lot of people aren't getting what they pay for. The whole financial services industry, in a way, is insane.

In part I think that satire was educational. It goes with the old saying, "Would you buy a used car from this man?". I think the movie will add much needed skepticism to the general population when it comes to investing and dealing with people in finance that are only interested in having you do some meaningless transaction that doesn't really put someone in a better position necessarily, just so they can collect fees. I don't how it is outside of the U.S. but that is still a modern day problem.

I think focusing on points has been your problem from the beginning.

Obama can't even get the legislation passed because your society is so polarized by an extremely simple solution.

Why the hell would he spend, when he can't even get the required support to act?

Extremely simple solution Yeah, we're just a few steps from utopia. If only our tax laws were more effective.

Obviously not, what a foolish question. America takes the attitude 'Well, look how many deaths are caused by other factors'. Or 'look at the number of deaths elsewhere'. It's ridiculous.

As an advanced society - the "leading" western power no less - you have to aspire towards no unnecessary deaths. It may be a faraway goal, but controlling guns is an essential and obvious step.

OMFG this is so delusional and arrogant.

I could imagine suffering from shock and walking into the emergency room at a hospital only to see NGOG at his desk, "Head of Triage". I'd be like, "I'm fucked" .

This reminds me of that apocryphal Stalin quote on a single death being a tragedy while a million is just a statistic.

 

as for mental people getting guns with 330+ million people running around you cannot keep tabs on every nutjob hell bent on destruction.

It would be very easy if you utilized your taxes more appropriately.

Please elaborate.

The whole gun debate is just touchy-feely coping for sad event that made the news.

You are actually looking for a way to change someone's behavior through laws but your solution would only be creating another problem. There isn't a way you can take away guns out of the hands of suicidal people by force without also taking guns away from people that legitimately want to defend themselves.

Let's double the size of the DEA. Instead of preventing all those deaths from Marijuana, let's get them to help prevent all those deaths from spree killings.