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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Has anyone listened to the album?
Is it really that bad?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

U2 fans appear to like it, but that's not the point.

The real issue is that it added itself to your library, downloaded itself onto your phone, and added itself to the rotation. Which is not really something I would want to have happen *at all*, even with a band I liked or an album I wanted. And you couldn't just delete the album or remove it from your account if you didn't want it, and unchecking it so it wouldn't stick itself back onto your device required changing settings in a way that was a nuisance for all future music.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

wow that's incredibly invasive.

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

This is what I was missing. Thank you. I got that it was pissing people off, but no one was really being articulate in explaining it. I don't have apple anything so I didn't experience it first hand.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Test run for installing NSA spyware.

[planet-x-zero.livejournal.com]

This is misleading. The problem is itunes automatically downloaded the album without users choosing to do so.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

thin distinction!

I do prefer they embrace sharing rather than attack it.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There's a not-insignificant distinction between "freely shared" and "installed in your living room without asking"

[planet-x-zero.livejournal.com]

Using exclamation points!

From now on iTunes will be installing your underwear.

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

[planet-x-zero.livejournal.com]

hahaha. yes, I admit it.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

Despite all this fuckery, Bono intrigues me. Female to male trans folk are less common than male to female.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Bono isn't trans, and using "lol trans" as an insult is a really shitty thing to do.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

Bono was not born female?

Who am I thinking of?

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

I never said "LOL trans" either, so not sure what you're referring to there. I am intersex/trans, so even if I do use gender related insults, they're usually in reference to myself or to mock other gender political fuckery.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

Would you freak out if he walked into a male only public bathroom? *Snort*

Couldn't resist.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No.

And no, really, that's entirely not cool.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

You're missing the context. I'm mocking someone and a long thread we had once here about gender neutral bathrooms.

[angelcerv25.livejournal.com]

Basically Jeff was like "you're upending social norms" and I was like "why are paying so much attention to other bathroom users, that's creepy," and a whole bunch of other people joined in for the gender neutral bathrooms and he naysayed it and it went on for 150 comments.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I've just realised that this post's number is 4441411.

This makes me happy.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Musician dies and goes to musician's heaven. St. Peter invites him to mingle. He meets Janice and Jimi, Mama Cass and Jimmy Dorsey. He looks into an office, though, and sees Bono. Distressed, he returns to St. Pete.

"When did Bono die?!?"

"Huh?" says Peter. "Oh, that's not Bono. It's God. He just thinks he's Bono."

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

http://www.hiyoooo.com/

[joshthevegan.livejournal.com]

I remember a time when U2 made music I'd want to listen to.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH just kidding no I don't.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

But what about The Edge? Man, he is one innovative guitarist, and a genius! Who would have thought you could make an entire career out of playing one note?!