Recent content by Necro Joe

posting again so people have to scroll through four Eriks with his mournful, piercing stare

please oh please tell me the thread where this was revealed is around somewhere

You really need to realise that your health care service isn't flourishing because you have more competition than those which have been made public, it's failing, and failing badly. It is more expensive than every other country's systems, and provides worse care. The only objection I can think...

@ RiA: Let me repeat the section you should be paying attention to: "As well as failing to provide care, and driving individuals into bankruptcy, the existing system is also exorbitantly expensive. Health care spending is now 15% of U.S. GDP - the highest in the world. The costs to businesses...

As the piece I posted hopefully demonstrates, this is wrong on many, many levels.

This was posted in the Debate & Discussion forum of the SomethingAwful boards, and I think it is a worthwhile read for those still unconvinced by the idea of Universal/Socialised healthcare. The title is 'Why Universal Health Care Is Unambiguously Necessary For America' so it is obviously...

That a person wouldn't want to contribute to making sure everyone in society can get basic medical treatment is something I don't think I'll ever understand. The US apparently not only has the worst health system of any developed country, but you guys are, I believe, already paying more towards...

Good album, me likey.

Source? I've only read about this tape in the context of it being a smear story with no basis in reality.

This is surprisingly cool. Its not really that progressive or different from what they've done before but there seems to be a freshness and emotional directness that has mostly been lacking since Still Life (possibly even before). It helps that the riffs are pretty much all either kickass or...

Mouth of the Architect are a bit like the middle ground between Neurosis's heavier stuff and Oceanic era Isis. They're not that original but make up for it with creative songwriting and riffs the size of houses. And obviously Behold...The Arctopus are badass. I don't know Intronaut and will...

Not bad, I'm not really feeling it at the mo but I'll most likely have another listen to the whole thing in the morning.

Everything Converge have done is pretty much awesome, my generic opinion is that Jane Doe is their awesomest, followed by You Fail Me and then No Heroes. But seiously, When Forever Comes Crashing isn't as good as those three and its still better than 99% of heavy music.

Well I went and listened to it again to make sure and seriously, you can't hear it? Like, at all? The vocalist could (apart from the lack of clean singing) be the same guy off Alive or Just Breathing, and yeah the riffs are faster and a bit more death metally but I really hear the same kinds of...

Honestly listening to that Maroon song I'm pretty much hearing KSE with some extra metal mixed in, which isn't a bad thing (Alive or Just Breathing is a pretty cool album) but like a lot of this modern metalcore stuff it kind of lacks its own identity. I far prefer the videos Satanastoenail...