The Express Edition of MS SQL Server is pretty damn good for 99% of the deployments you would consider MySQL for, and its free. The limits are memory usage (1GB per instance), database size (10GB), CPU (1 physical or 4 cores) and instances (50 per server).

That should run most websites and business apps fine. Because most websites and business apps are drastically overspecced and under used.

I would love to know what you think constitutes a betrayal after the Scottish independence vote...

Labour were making the same noises about the same tax changes that Osborne just announced, so yes, it will happen.

He will do because its a big topic over here in the UK, and has been for a while.

Personally, I applaud Osborn for doing it - for once we aren't saying "hey, you know those rules we made for you to adhere to? Well, we have decided that there are these other 'rules' as well which we would like you to adhere to, and we will say nasty things about you if you don't. Are they legally binding I hear you ask? Well, no, but that won't stop us from thinking you should be restricted by our second set of 'rules'..."

Instead, we are actually getting something done about the rules under which companies should be paying tax. As a lot of people have said all along, fuck the spirit of the law, apply the actual law. If the law doesn't say what you want it to say, change it. Don't try and bully people into following your additional 'voluntary' rules which you want to make over and above the actual laws.

Theres a difference between being *right* and *having people agree with you*.

No, it really isn't.

But then people like you will strive to find arguments against the things you dislike.

... this won't last.

Bullshit - check up on current relations between Israel and the surrounding countries, both Egypt and Jordan are on good relations with Israel. The "surrounded by countries who want to destroy Israel" is a load of propaganda bullshit. Sure, some countries have issues with Israel, its creation and its actions, but that's nowhere near the same as your statement.

Many towns and cities in the UK don't have off road parking, and onroad parking is not allocated so there is no guarantee that you can park within 50 metres of your home. Add in the fact that theres a pavement between the road and your house, and electric vehicles are out for more than 50% of the UK driving population.

Really? Did you see the BMW i8 Hybrid piece a few weeks ago? The one where he chooses the hybrid over the traditionally engined car at the end of the segment? The one where he likes the car for what it is?

Stop with the bullshit that Clarkson hates hybrids or electric cars - he hates shit cars, so shit cars get hated on by him and the Top Gear team.

Tell me where I can submit a free request and get back full ownership details for either a building or a vehicle - both of those are restricted in the UK.

And why not? Why shouldn't domain owners have privacy?

So what happens when you have uploaded 100TB to Google NearLine and in a year they discontinue it?

You assume that the original KJV translation used the correct translation of the original material, and that our later translations don't. Its not as if the Bibles we have today are an update done from the KJV, they are a fresh translation done from original materials, so yes our understanding of the language may have changed since the 16th century, but you can still go back and cross examine different bible versions - which is why serious bible studies are done with half a dozen bibles on your lap, and Church of England vicars need to learn Hebrew.

Reads well to me - to become law it needs to be passed in the Senate. To be passed in the Senate, it needs to be introduced by a Senator, no one else can introduce a bill into the Senate. And this bill has no Senator signed on as a sponsor of the bill, so it can't be introduced into the Senate, so the Senate cannot pass it, so it cannot become law.