Your calculations have one serious flaw: you assume that a person's income is fixed over their lifetime. You assume the median man earns the median income for 45 years before retiring. In reality, young workers tend to hold the lower income jobs and over time, they migrate up the distribution. New entrants to the job market take their place. The average lifetime income of the median worker is not actually the median income at any given time.

If Abrams' effort counts for not sucking in that universe, I'll keep my Episode 1 any day.

I'm not American. I don't believe, and many people would agree with me, that your 'constitutional right' is the fundamental right which you defend so vehemently. It was included in the constitution with explicit reference to 'a well regulated militia'.

Except that it's not. Losses are denoted in brackets (). There was a net income loss attributable to stockholders but that's because Sony also had other liabilities. (Which may or may not have included the fine. I'm not sure where they would hide it within an Annual Report)

I made a post about this on the battlenet forums. Please see: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24702391055&sid=5010 In a LAN party, the weakest link is almost always the broadband connection. My link describes a recent international tournament held in China which was ruined because of remote Battlenet hosting. It had nothing to do with Battlenet itself being unstable at the time. It was the ISP and that is beyond the control of the organiser or Blizzard for that matter. Note that the Warcraft 3 tournament went off without a hitch. It's a much older Blizzard game which DOES have LAN support. Removing LAN support is a HUGE problem for tournaments.

The industry standard was the JPM model on bloomberg page cdsw. If you didnt have bloomberg, that was a pain but almost everybody in the industry has access to bloomberg. It's also pretty easy to code up yourself. It is based on the standard Hull White model found in any text book.

A quick glance at Wikipedia yielded some interesting figures about Boll's films:

The House of the Dead (budget: $12 million) broke $5.73 million on opening weekend, Alone in the Dark made over $5.1 million (budget: $20 million), and BloodRayne (budget: $25 million) topped $2.42 million.

There is also an answer to the question of how he continues to raise funding:

'Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.'

Uwe Boll is a direct result of German tax policy. Looks like the Germans are having some kind of sick joke on our behalf.