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An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt has the details on how it was possible for the last Harry Potter movie to lose $167 million while taking in nearly $1 billion in revenue. If you ever wanted to see "Hollywood Accounting" in action, take a look. The article also notes two recent court decisions that may raise questions about Hollywood's ability to continue with these kinds of tricks. The producers of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" now have to pay $267 million for its attempt to get around paying a partner through similar tricks.
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Comment Re:Negative votes (Score 2, Interesting) 375

Personally I like proportional voting systems; example: Say there are 100 seats in the legislature, party "A" gets 40% of the votes party "B" gets 30% of the votes, party "C" gets 25% and party "D" gets 5%. So they get a number of seats proportional to the votes they receive. Party A gets 40 seats and so on. Party D however doesn't get any seats as there is an 8% minimum you have to reach to get in the legislature, to help prevent radical minorities getting a foot hold. (last part is just kinda in-theory)

But I think a system like this would benefit the US a lot, would really get 3rd parties on the map.

Comment Another reason (Score 1) 558

I didn't read all the comments to see if someone mentioned it...

But in a the metal manufacturing shop that my father runs all of there presses, breaks and other equipment with some computer controls, like for pre-sets and settings use floppy drives. Equipment that costs several hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece. It's not like they have a lot of pressure to upgrade. =\

Comment Re:Totota problems..... (Score 1) 1146

I'm not discounting your friends problem, it certainly is bad. Point is though, funny thing about the oil light: by the time it comes on, it is too late anyway. The oil light is triggered by a pressure sensor on an oil gallery on the engine block, which is fed directly by the oil pump. If that pressure switch is activated (by low pressure), then there is insufficient pressure being generated by the pump (usually due to failure or complete lack of oil supply). By the time a typical driver reacts to the oil light and stops the car, the engine has been running for some minutes, under load, with no oil pressure to the bearings. Since the crankshaft and camshaft bearings rely on oil pressure to float the shaft in the center of the bearing cavity... the bearings are usually damaged.

Not entirely true, some newer vehicles ( I would assume most/all but can't say from first hand exp.) electronically monitor oil levels. My care for example (02 Camaro) Throws the oil light whenever it's 2quarts low, (holds almost 6 quarts). Tested this one time before changing the oil. (stared it up, let it run for a minute, and see if the light comes on) Tested it on a 99 dodge RAM as well, same thing.


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Comment Re:Ethanol is just stupid (Score 1) 894


Well the two vehicle brands you mentioned are US owned... Saab is owned by GM, and Volvo by Ford.

Comment Not sure on everyone else... (Score 1) 695

Didn't read more than the first comment from someone who was trying to make something far more complicated than it should be.

What we did, was in our shop (separate building, but electricity runs from the house to it). Is we wired a 220 plug (well pump is 220) on the outside of the shop that fed into the breaker box.

So when the generator was plugged in and on, it would feed the shop, which would in turn feed to the house. So you just have to make sure you don't turn on more stuff than your generator can handle. Or turn off some/many of the breakers in the house to make sure other peeps don't turn to much on.

Only thing with this set-up is you have to have a shutoff for the main feed to the house, otherwise you will be back feeding. Which isn't exactly what you want to do. =p
Of course this exact setup would not work for everyone, but the idea is the same regardless.

We have a 5k watt generator and it powers a fair amount of the house without a problem. We do have a propane furnace (tank in the yard). So don't have to worry about the heat part to much.

Well there is my 2 cents...

Never trust an operating system.