time to spam one someone else's thread

congrats rusty.

Thanks for this reply. I agree with what you're saying here... I guess it would by my only suggestion to divorce bitinstant from any ideologies, and just to stick with a cold corporate faceplate. I feel like bitinstant and the bitcoin community would benefit from not having our admittedly fringe ideals plastered all over the place. Why can't bitcoin, to the "outside world" if you will, just be (or just start out as) a new way to have/move/think about money? I feel like lots of people are turned off to bitcoin by all the libertarian mumbo-jumbo.

:/

Sure, it's annoying, but what does this have to do with bitinstant?

Bitinstant is cool and all, but I don't think it was a professional move to call the Royal Canadian Mint a fraud on your website, complete with a defaced logo. Even if they were a "fraud" as you say.

It was a tongue-in-cheek answer anyway, on a poll that got mobbed by this forum. I remember voting there; that really would be the only thing I would use something like MintChip for. I got a kick out of it but that was it. I think the outrage is grossly misplaced.

+1

Just because of your ridiculous, petty "PR" forum account, I'm never going near the MPwhatever exchange.

Dank did return my principal plus interest back. I was and am happy.

Full disclosure: I no longer invest bitcoins anywhere.

I've come to the conclusion that scammer tags are a huge waste of everyone's time. We should do away with them on this forum. The original intent of the tagswas to warn newcomers to be careful in general. Right? To inform everyone that scammers exist and are on the prowl. Scammer tags are never useful for actually avoiding scams, as we all know.

I think doing away with the tags, and just posting a blanket warning that scams abound, would be a better move. We are all free to start polls on whether something is a scam, and that should be enough. It may be easy for a less vigilant newcomer to see a 500 post count user with gold coins instead of Xs and be reassured. Without that false safety net, there is more room to promote the ideal of due diligence.

Idk, just a rant. Carry on.

Which is why I expect the SR ops to run with all the money. Just like Tony; Just like Pirate.

Cash out now or get busted later.

Wow. These are the only ones I have seen. I love all of them except for The Presige... I it's Nolan's weakest work in my opinion. Actually, I wasn't crazy about The Incredibles either.

Eternal Sunshine has a lot of amazing, memorable, dreamy scenes that I will never forget. But it also had some scenes that I felt were out of place. And the subplot about the program employees was absolute shit. Nearly ruined the movie for me.

Memento is admittedly gimmicky. Pearce, nor whats-her-face, are not great here. The movie is redeemed by the expertly crafted mood that is set. I also love the last few lines of the film which pack a not-so-subtle postmodernist punch.

The Road is so true to the book. It portrayed everything exactly as I pictured it when I read the book. So kudos there.

Winter's Bone. Man, is that close to home. Many people refer to my county as the meth capital of the world. That kind of living is just a short drive away.

If someone can spend them, someone else can steal them.

I've only been scammed out of dwolla

Because 5% > 3%. If you are earning a sum of 2% in a currency that increases in value by 3%, you reap the benefits of both.

Ha, once upon a bitcoin you were the first person here to piss me off.

It brings a smile to my face imagining watching this film in 1968. I mean, all of these images are so ordinary for us--even cliche--but can you imagine being 13 in 1968 and watching the future unfold on screen? The prescience is astounding.

I'm going to shut my netbook so I can just soak this movie in. It's SO good. It just demands everyone's full attention. In fact, I feel guilty browsing bitcointalk while this is playing right in front of me.

I used to want to spend bitcoins for goods and services to support the currency, due to idealism, but for now I'd rather just use dollars again. I put my savings in bitcoin. I hoard. I have a large (for me) offline/kind-of-brain- wallet that I don't plan on touching. I keep about 15 BTC online in case I do want to buy something. I would like to have all of my money in bitcoin, but it's convenient to keep a revolving door on my bank account for paychecks/bills. So when I can be paid in bitcoins and pay my bills in bitcoins, I'll start actually using bitcoins.

After reading this, I popped it in for yet another viewing. I just finished the creepy black overture, and I'm already getting goosebumps. It's one of my favorite movies. Utterly timeless. It's amazing how pretty much everything in this movie has stood the test of time. Even the special effects look impressive to me. I'm watching it in the letterbox ratio on an HD TV, but only on DVD.

It was the movie that legitimized the sci-fi genre. And no other sci-fi film has come close to greatness of this masterpiece.

Malick's The Tree of Life doesn't hold a candle to this movie either. It's still very good, but I pity those who've only seen The Tree of Life. (I brought it up because it's impossible to talk about The Tree of Life without mentioning 2001, but many of my friends have only seen the former. It's frustrating).

Does anyone have a specific interpretation of the film's ending? Mine changes every time I watch it.

Which reminds me, I need to watch Inland Empire again. That was a real whatthefucker for me.

I never thought I'd have a daily account on an internet forum, especially one with 1000 posts...

By the way...

I really like noir, and the Pale Flower trailer (pg 1 of this thread) was just mouthwathering.

I didn't know Deakins did True Grit too, but I do really like that movie. His work in TAOJJBTCRF earned him an Oscar nomination, or was it a win? ( Either way, Oscars have become a joke in recent years. In my opinion). He went a little nuts with that blurry vignette effect (that he went ahead and named the Deakins effect, I think  ), but I still liked it.

Haven't seen Jane Eyre, I'll have to add it to my list.

Underrated movies?

I'd vote for Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The brooding revisionist western features Casey Affleck at his finest, and Brad Pitt damn near his.  Also a young Jeremy Renner of pre-Hurt Locker fame. Sam Shepard steals several scenes as Frank James.

Though often criticized for its deliberately slow pace and overall length, it is really less a film than a poem, and should be considered as such. Many have compared the opus to Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller, though I have yet to see it. The cinematography in TAOJJBTCRF is sweet and eerie; any given still deserves to be framed in a log cabin somewhere. The characters are generally cold and despicable, which brings the visuals to the center of the emotional stage. Nick Cave's score couldn't be any more fitting. The old-timey dialogue is also an authentic treat for anyone who's lived in the southern United States.

My one small complaint about about the film it that the final act (featuring a peculiarly small role from Zooey Deschanel) belabors it's point for about 20 minutes too long. It's all very rewarding in every sense except narratively. The credits just don't start rolling when you expect them to. And at a 160 minute runtime, it is a bit unfair to the viewers.