Recent content by Maineac

Adam, I think the situation is more complex than you indicate here. I would suggest you read a little of Sam Harris' blog. Sam is a renoun athiest and writer. He is quite intelligent and not your typical pro-gun evangelist. As to whether a change in this issue is possible, I would say that the...

IMO you are absolutely correct in that people cause problems. And things like a person's education level and income/poverty level affect a person's attitude and inner thoughts. I would also add that education and income level also seems to affect a persons suseptability to the effects of the...

Vassago, I hear you. I have been a player of some violent MMORPGs, Asheron's Call and World of Warcraft. I don't think that I have any urge to shoot people. But I realize that my experiences are not everyones. Well over a Billion dollars was spent in the last political campain not to sell...

Wow, I notice that this post started back in July and is still hot! For my two cents I'll say: 1. Gun control does not mean Gun elimination! People seem to fall into one of two camps, either no gun control or no guns. That's rediculous. 2. Our focus is in the wrong area. We need to...

dexcelle, I noticed in looking at the code that you are populating many tables an once. I am in the middle of similar project. The xml files I am importing are 19 Mbyte and 30 Mbyte. I just imported the 19 MBtye (24,000 records) using the code listed below and it incrased the database by 5...