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January 18, 2008

Did you ever notice that when you’re watching television and the commercials come on, the sound level goes up? It goes to an annoyingly loud level so you adjust the level and then, when the program continues, you have to push it up again. What would be the reasoning behind this? Commercials are already annoying, why make them more annoying? I’m really puzzled here…

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