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Danger Bomb Clock gets you up and going with a bang
Friday, June 19, 2009
Need a little extra prodding or hours of cajoling before you get out of bed? Need to dress in time, avoid wolfing down your breakfast and causing near-death encounters trying to catch the last morning shuttle to work? Then, here is an exciting new option for you to wake up with a bang: literally!
The Danger Bomb alarm clock works on a simple principle for arousing sleepy-heads: it scares you awake! Have not heard of that one yet?
Not quiet a bomb, but aspiring for explosive power status, the Danger Bomb alarm clock lets out a powerful array of continuous explosion sounds that need to be disabled physically by following a light-up code (which is reset every morning) and by unhooking the correct wire! A whole new perspective to getting an incentive to wake up every morning on time is not it not having to defuse a bomber-type alarm clock that yells for attention?
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USD 80000 per Song Download
A US woman has been ordered to pay $1.92 million for downloading 24 tracks from the Kazaa file sharing site - $80,000 per song. The original trial awarded over just over $9000 per song in damages to the record companies but instead got awarded close to ten times more in a retrial. The funny thing in this case is the fact that a much lower settlement offer was on the cards but seemingly refused. The mother of four children against whom the penalties have been secured is defiant in saying there is no way she can ever pay that much and that the record companies will have a hard time getting it from her. She downloaded 24 songs from Kazaa.
As ridiculous as this sounds and as wrong as online piracy is, the record labels themselves are not entirely without fault here. The Compact disk is outdated as a music distribution medium in the Internet age. Yes, many online music shops have come of age, but their pricing (we are talking about legal ones here) models are still structured to compete with compact disc and DVD. You have to ask what the logic is in that. Rest of the Story Here
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