It's probably military/DoE waste from the 50s or 60s, or however long ago they were still able to ship large quantities of the stuff without getting NIMBYd.

the actual production cost of $30 million as indicated by the tax writeoff stated value

The tax write-off can only be for part of the production cost, isn't it? You don't get to deduct the entire cost of the movie.

It's well-reported that WB sold the film below costs to Ketchup, and they paid $50 million for it.

Did Paramount's threat to leave Cali force this agreement to the table?

Paramount probably won't move as a condition of the settlement.

Trump and friends probably wanted the Netflix buyout of WB to happen instead.

Law not lae.

It would make sense for Flock to have guarantees for weather damage or similar, but vandalism is a lae enforcement proposition. Flock definitely overextended themselves.

What kind of crackhead at Flock agreed to a contract obligating them to cover the cost of cameras lost to vandals?

If Flock is losing money, then presumably so will everyone else.

Battery fires produce a lot of contamination. Lithium ones do anyway.

If it's actually good, then lots of people.

Salaries in the gaming industry have been depressed for years in no small part due to the willing dupes who keep flooding the industry with low pay expectations. "That's my dream.job!" they say. Also the ones making less than $50k are probably QAs, at least the ones that haven't already been fired.

Ask any longterm Blizzard fan, and they'll tell you product quality and release schedules have both fallen off over the last 10 years or so.

There are industries that aren't that bloated with excess talent.

OSI's worst conditions were after the EA buyout, especially during Ultima VIII development. That was some of their worst work.