Turns out when they went digital and got the popcorn kid to press play instead of a skilled projectionist, sound calibration also went away. Now they deliberately turn it up beyond the sound mixer’s specs.
Politics fans were miffed because at the time Bono was bitching about how the Irish Government wasn’t spending enough on foreign aid, while the band had just bought a skyscraper in Dublin and had offshored their business affairs so they no longer paid tax in Ireland. They’re the PETA of gobby musicians.
They’re also aggressively mediocre, so most music fans would find no value in the album. There was a reason the band took the payoff.
Tech fans were outraged because the album turned up on every iTunes-connected device without consent, and there was no way to remove it until the avalanche of complaints led Apple to make an update specifically to allow this.
Iraq was not a direct response to 9/11. Barely anyone supported it. The coalition’s major partner, Britain, did so despite over a million protestors marching on Downing Street. The UN declared the war illegal, and there was near universal international condemnation. It became practice for Americans abroad to pretend to be Canadians to escape the wrath of the locals.
Flu season started weeks early this year unexpectedly, causing massive critical strain on an underfunded system. The solution is a bigger better funded NHS, not whatever the shit they do in America of all places.
Yes, because there’s a limit to how thin a screen can be and still fit decent speakers, and that sailed by 20 years ago.