At least from my perspective the standard for a new building of that type today is usually fiber to each apartment, then a converter box that offers TV, Internet and phone for so called triple play. Then you would normally pull a fiber cable to each apartment and have a magic box that breaks it out into the various services. I assume you don't have a cable TV provider today? Because if you're already wired for cable, hooking up cable modems is clearly the easiest way to go. And if they won't give you a nice price, threaten to switch providers for everything. I've never heard of an entire apartment building being supplied by wireless APs, sure people can set up their own APs but there's always been a wire to the wall. It might be a bit cheaper to retrofit to an existing building but I wouldn't recommend it, hotels and such have struggled a lot to get good reception in every room.

With solar that makes sense because you're really generating the power with your solar cells, when they're first installed you're collecting free sunlight. I don't see the big point in buying a small methane generator and then buy methane while tied to the grid, then I assume it would be much cheaper to put a big methane power plant on the grid and buy electricity from there. In short, I don't see a big reason for ever turning this generator on unless you're off the grid...

Do you seriously believe that either of two Bush's opponents could have possibly fucked the country up any more than he did?

Especially for Bush's second term. I mean, so you voted against a candidate who "made your skin crawl", and for the guy who has already been anally raping you without lube for 4 years. Very smart.

No offense, but who is she? Can't you add this information in the damn summary?

She's a minor character in "Moai Better Blues", a second season episode of Sam&Max.

Define "too hard." How hard should they try? And why should someone use your definition over anyone else's?

I believe far too many people throw out the word "rationalization" as if that will defeat their opponent's arguments. Anyone can do that, but whether or not they're really "rationalizing" is up for debate.

And to them, it may very well justify piracy.

Well, duh. You're comparing, essentially, the population of ex-USSR - less than 150 million left by now, probably, since those born after the collapse tend to not know much about their history - with the population of US (300 million) + UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Add to it the fact that Internet is still disproportionally centered around Western countries, with the notable exclusion of China.

Anyway, like I said, if you want to find out the "most famous pilot in the world", ask the Chinese.

My point was to illustrate that this is highly specific to a particular culture one was born and raised in.

I'm sure that in the English-speaking world, Earhart is much more popular - and, of course, if you use English spellings to search, that's what you're going to get. Searching in Cyrillic, on the other hand, gives (me) 640k hits for Chkalov and 98k hits for Earhart.

And I have no idea what name all the 1.5 billion Chinese would consider first, but I bet it's neither of those. So "world at large" might surprise you as well.

Only because the murder rate reached an extreme peak the year that prohibition was repealed. The year after the repeal, the murder rate was still significantly higher than any other year during prohibition.

Sounds awesome.

Regulating != artificially high prices.