Actually we have volcanic eruptions, avalanches and erathquakes quite frequently (yes i live in Iceland). Avalanches cause deaths very rarely (since Iceland is so sparsely populated) and i don't think we've head any deaths due to earthquakes in the last 100 years.
We had a pretty big earthquake (6.5 on Richter) on june 17th 2000 (our independence day:S). The quake was felt all over the country but caused relatively little damage (propably because of our very strict building regulations, almost everything is steel-reinforced concrete). Not one casualty there.
Volcanic eruptions are also pretty common. Here's a small list of dates - locations (you can try googling them):
2004 Grímsvötn
2000 Hekla
1998 Grímsvötn
1996 Gjálp
1991 Hekla
Most of these weren't big (except the one in 1991 and 1998) bet the one in 1998 caused a considerable flood (Skeiðarárhlaup) which damaged our main higway and destroyed a couple of bridges.
I dare to claim that human casualties due to natural disasters for the last 100 years is below 100 people (the worst being two avalanches that hit in 1995 in Flateyri and Súðavík)
I keep coming across this argument and never get an answer.. so i ask once again. What's wrong with hunting whales (as long as one doesn't make them extinct)?
We ead horses for christs sake, it can't be the fact that tourists like to look at them because we could just as well open up a SeaWorld!
Lot's of people like to eat whale, so what's so different about hunting/killing them like any other fish or barnyard animal?
Hmm.. it doesn't come with the OS, but the ASP.NET Web Matrix is one hell of a free development tool. You can create all the.NET programs (windows and console) and web pages (ASP.NET) you want, and hey.. if you want a free DB to go with that, just download MSDE, which is, as far as i know, 100% compatible with SQL Server and even feel free to redistribute it with the apps you create with the ASP.NET Web Matrix.
Doesn't sound all that bad to me since i say: "Screw cross-platformness!":D
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Actually we have volcanic eruptions, avalanches and erathquakes quite frequently (yes i live in Iceland). Avalanches cause deaths very rarely (since Iceland is so sparsely populated) and i don't think we've head any deaths due to earthquakes in the last 100 years.
We had a pretty big earthquake (6.5 on Richter) on june 17th 2000 (our independence day :S). The quake was felt all over the country but caused relatively little damage (propably because of our very strict building regulations, almost everything is steel-reinforced concrete). Not one casualty there.
Volcanic eruptions are also pretty common. Here's a small list of dates - locations (you can try googling them):
2004 Grímsvötn
2000 Hekla
1998 Grímsvötn
1996 Gjálp
1991 Hekla
Most of these weren't big (except the one in 1991 and 1998) bet the one in 1998 caused a considerable flood (Skeiðarárhlaup) which damaged our main higway and destroyed a couple of bridges.
I dare to claim that human casualties due to natural disasters for the last 100 years is below 100 people (the worst being two avalanches that hit in 1995 in Flateyri and Súðavík)
I keep coming across this argument and never get an answer.. so i ask once again. What's wrong with hunting whales (as long as one doesn't make them extinct)?
We ead horses for christs sake, it can't be the fact that tourists like to look at them because we could just as well open up a SeaWorld!
Lot's of people like to eat whale, so what's so different about hunting/killing them like any other fish or barnyard animal?
Hmm.. it doesn't come with the OS, but the ASP.NET Web Matrix is one hell of a free development tool. You can create all the .NET programs (windows and console) and web pages (ASP.NET) you want, and hey.. if you want a free DB to go with that, just download MSDE, which is, as far as i know, 100% compatible with SQL Server and even feel free to redistribute it with the apps you create with the ASP.NET Web Matrix.
Doesn't sound all that bad to me since i say: "Screw cross-platformness!" :D