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Because a) most US cities have ordinances prohibiting arial fireworks (and some prohibit all fireworks) without a permit/license, and b) Many states prohibit the sale of arial fireworks, or limit the size to a few grams, or less than N feet (meters) off the ground, or all of those things.

The better question would be to ask why these regulations exist, and the answer is to prevent this:

http://icelandreview.com/news/...
http://icelandreview.com/news/...

Also Iceland in mid-winter carries a much lower fire risk than much of the US in mid-summer.

I like setting off my own, but there are upsides to municipal displays as well:

* They're usually choreographed.
* They're cheaper (free).
* Less running away from lit fuses and more sitting back and enjoying.

Because a) most US cities have ordinances prohibiting arial fireworks (and some prohibit all fireworks) without a permit/license, and b) Many states prohibit the sale of arial fireworks, or limit the size to a few grams, or less than N feet (meters) off the ground, or all of those things.

The better question would be to ask why these regulations exist, and the answer is to prevent this:

http://icelandreview.com/news/...
http://icelandreview.com/news/...

Also Iceland in mid-winter carries a much lower fire risk than much of the US in mid-summer.

I like setting off my own, but there are upsides to municipal displays as well:

* They're usually choreographed.
* They're cheaper (free).
* Less running away from lit fuses and more sitting back and enjoying.

Diesel is not a suitable motor fuel for a large part of our population due to temperatures in the winter. Lower temperatures makes diesel more problematic than gasoline. In the large population centers of the north east, even gasoline cars can be difficult to start on the colder winter days.

I drove a diesel VW Jetta in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was fine year round. The door handles freezing and breaking when you tried to open the door was a bigger concern then starting it.

Winterized diesel fuel, and good quality batteries, and the car is not really any worse than a gas car.

People drive diesels in Alaska and Iceland.. in fact here's an excerpt from an article recommending a car for use in Iceland...

"The most eco-friendly option at the moment, according to ÃsgrÃmsson, is to purchase a diesel-driven car. Diesel is widely available in Iceland."

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/search/news/Default.asp?ew_0_a_id=289379

I think the whole diesel is bad in cold weather is 30+ year old 'common knowledge' that isn't valid anymore.

But they can't make you give up your password. And luckily they're still afraid of lawsuits, so they have not resorted to shipping non-Arab-looking, non-Muslim Americans to black sites yet. Although they did jail a blonde Icelandic girl with no food nor access to a phone call for 24 hours once. Yeah, in light of the way the Americans treat people (water-boarding, beating them to death), no food for 24 hours is a rather pleasant experience, isn't it.

And apparently their checks are useless, Jacob Appelbaum's (part-time volunteer for WikiLeaks and Tor, supporter of the Egyptian revolution) USB sticks got confiscated, he knew he was going to be harassed, so he dd'ed the Bill of Rights onto the bootsector beforehand, and their useless program couldn't see that...

Posting anonymous, but I think I've signed my name to anti-American-fascism statements before, they'll still probe my ass when I visit that terrorist regime...

Yes the engineers and customers are in Silicon Valley, that's fine. But we have this thing called the Internet which means it is no longer necessary to put data centers anywhere near the customers or engineers. And if it's not necessary, it makes absolutely no sense for servers to compete for space in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world when there are billions of acres of wasteland that would work just as well for a server farm. I've used a thin client desktop with the servers hosted over 3000 miles away and the latency was better than it was when the server was hosted only 8 miles away. Only video games and the kind of hyperactive trading that led to this month's stock crashes have latency requirements which would be significantly impacted by having your server in central valley or the Midwest or Iceland or Offshore and you will save an enormous amount of real estate and energy costs. I'm convinced that high-level corporate decisions are still based on inertia and nineteenth century factory-whistle mentality.

When this volcano blows a major Katla eruption follows soon after. Katla is about 10 miles East.

This one shuts down half the air travel in western Europe for a few days. Katla shuts down summer. The farmers are not worried about this volcano:

"I am not afraid of this eruption but I fear Katla. It might not happen immediately but it will happen. Then we will be talking about much more power," Agnarsson said.

It has to do with the type of plate tectonics here. The plates are pulling apart, yielding a very deep rift that releases very hot magma from very far down in the mantle, which is saturated with CO2 and when released goes very high, far, thick and long. Naturally this will melt a great deal of Iceland glacier very quickly, impacting the currents in the Atlantic.

What irresponsible actions?

Aron Pálmi Ágústsson is also still in prison, although he will be released in August - at the age of 23, after having spent ten years in a Texan prison for playing doctor with another kid when he was 13. And then they call it a "justice" system...

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Oops. So sorry. I was just in...kind of a mood...you know? Forgive me?