Your "outsider's knowledge" is wrong, unsurprisingly.
See the-age-of-the-housing-stock-by-state to get some real information. And, if you read the article, you'll see that the states with lower median housing age are those with higher growth (i.e. building a lot of new homes because the population is growing in those areas - not because they're replacing existing homes).

The only places I've seen homes/apartments actually being ripped down and replaced is where the location is more valuable then the existing building and the replacement is larger - this is mainly done in wealthy suburbs where smaller houses are being replaced with much larger ones (and then the small homes were usually built in the 1950's or 60's).

I have AT&T's Uverse for internet, phone (their VoIP) and tv service. There are some known problems/limits with Uverse, but it matches my home needs. It also has never gone out due to a power outage on the AT&T side (including an outage that lasted for over a day for a large area around me).

Since we have their VoIP, they provide a dedicated UPS for the RG (modem/router/VoIP adapter). It is supposed to last for about an hour (IIRC), but I don't use it since the RG is plugged into the UPS for my home server and networking equipment.

During the long outage, the Uverse service stayed up the entire time. I had to recharge the UPS batteries a couple of times, but we watched TV and used the internet & phone through the entire outage. That's one of the nice things about AT&T, they have a lot of experience preparing for and running their equipment during power outages.

"Last Man on Earth", the Vincent Price movie version of "I am Legend" is available at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/TheLastManOnEarth_72

Although I prefer Mathewson's original story to any of the movie adaptations, I think that this is the best movie of the three based on it.

You live on the gulf coast and don't have a backup generator? I live near Birmingham and have a UPS (for minor outages to keep some electronics running) and a small backup generator for longer outages (powers the refrigerator to keep food from spoiling and to charge the UPS). Our last power outage (the tornado that went from Tuscaloosa nearly to Georgia) lasted almost a day, but we had working wired broadband/vol-ip (u-verse) and cell service (sprint) the entire time (and didn't have to worry about food spoiling).

While our broadband comes over the phone lines, ours lines are mainly underground. We had many friends without a land line for a week because their above ground lines were ripped up by the tornado. Nothing is disaster proof - always have redundancy.

I assume you're only talking DSL - there are several other options in most of the Birmingham area. Charter cable offers 1 Mbps up with 8 Mbps down and AT&T U-Verse has 1 Mbps upstream speeds at the 3 Mbps downstream (both offer higher upstream rates with higher downstream rates).

From the article - "The Evo 4G will swap between 3G and WiMAX for data depending on what's available; it will make all voice calls over Sprint's CDMA 1X network."

NewEgg identified IPEX as the distributor of the phony chips. Their website, http://www.ipexinfo.com/ , is now returning empty pages. Google shows a cached page that was available earlier today.

Don't know if it's just overloaded or if they took it down on purpose.

Don't eat them, that would be cannibalism!

It's not cannibalism if you feed them to your dog, however. And your dog will enjoy chewing on the bones, too!

What did River do???? She kicked big-time Reaver butt (and beat up Jayne a couple of times)...

I'd count all 9 of them as crew - as Mal did (except for the part of the movie when Simon & River left).

At this moment, the parent to this is rated 'Troll' - obviously by stuck-up prudes who didn't watch the show...

Remember, Kaylee's first 'introduction' to the ship Serenity was on her back - making 'woopie' with Serenity's (then) engineer. (I hope 'woopie' is acceptable to those prudes out there...)

She might not mind 'helping out' fellow crew members if she was able to get a job on the ISS. God know, it could use her engineering skills...