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UK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy

Posted by michael on from the don't-hold-your-breath dept.

Bob Dobbs writes "Tomorrow the UK government will announce (observer.co.uk) it's going to "get serious" about renewable energy; in the bleakest look at global warming so far Tony Blair will warn that extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage across Europe within a decade and the current situation is "unsustainable". On the bright side, it's mentioned that sustainable energy sources are less susceptible to terrorist attack."

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  1. I DID IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU FAIL IT!

  2. SELECT pr_statement_21 FROM responses by MySQL+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A proposal

    I would like to make an open source alternative to MySQL called PoliteSQL. Of course, I would continue to use MySQL, but this option would be available for those in the IT industry who think their computers are tired of being bossed around. The most notable feature would be that this syntax:

    politemysql> insert into table set field='value';

    Would not parse. It would instead return the error message "ERROR 4122: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'insert' at line 1 - you forgot to say please"

    Thus, the correct syntax would be:

    politemysql> PLEEEEEASE insert into table set field='value';
    Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

    Stay tuned for my sourceforge page link!

    --
    "Linux is for geeks, beos is for nobody, Mac OS is for actors, XP is for people" - Anonymous Coward
  3. Re:Hamsters! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll.

  4. Re:Hamsters! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YFI ISR HAND