The problem is a total lack of promotion and involvement from the band, namely Axl.  I don't watch MTV cause I have a brain and a dick between my legs, but I assume Kanye, Beyonce and Britney are all over the TV.  There is shit, nada, zilch from GN'R.  This album was only purchased by those who follow the band or the music industry because no one else knows about it.  All this talk about Azoff being this genius and the highlight of his marketing plan for 15 second videos that got occasional air play. 

To those saying the managment should invest money into countries where it sold well in week 1, why?  Selling well in Switzerland means dick.  It could be #1 in Switzerland for a year and women could orgasm on the streets everytime they hear Axl's screech in Bern and it'd still be more advantageous if the Album stayed #10 in the US for a few weeks.  It's simple numbers.  I know people take pride in GN'R and it doing well in their nation, but there's 300 million people in the United States alone, compared with roughly 300 million people in Europe total.  If they want this album to do well, they need to fucking get Axl on Leno, Letterman, The Daily Show or whatever else is the flavor of the day with the masses.  Make a fucking video, and above all else, get out and tour.  This is fucking economics 101 and they're fucking it up.  This is an amazing album and blows the shit out of any other piece of plastic wrapped in the past few years.  That's what is so depressing.  This is a great album put out under one of the famous band's (if name only to appease the haters) and it's going to flop because there has been zero fucking promotion. 

I have never believed in a reunion, but this fiasco does even more to harm the chances of that ever happening.  The press would eat the re-united band alive.  "Guns N' Roses gets back together after two album flops."  That's how the band is going to be portrayed.  And they will never get the feeling they had on AFD and the Illusions, so they'll be razzed for not hitting their mark there as well.  It's also just such a god damn tragedy.

This is not big brother Pollux.  This is security.  Me surfing GNRevolution, while fun, serves no military purpose.  Furthermore, it could present a forum for me to say shit I'm not supposed to.  There is a world of difference between the Army stoppoing me from websurfing and sucking up valuable bandwidth and big brother blocking sites for civilians.  There is also a world of difference between big brother and an internet company stopping you from infecting their network (I assume you were on broadband, but even if you weren't...).   Government computers are not a place or medium to have fun on and treat as you would your personal computer.  Allowing people to hook up IPODs and other media devices are just begging to allow a trojan or virus onto a network.

You guys have no idea how much of a bitch this is.  I can't go into details, but my Soldiers have spent the past week formatting and reinstalling computers out the ass.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but isn't the 13 points of light the remaining 13 tracks on CD?  There are 14 tracks right?  We've heard the final version of CD, meaning 13 are left.  Maybe you guys already gathered that, but that's what I am gathering.  I need to stay away from this.  Philosophy paper to write.