We've probably given ourselves cancer but my friends and I have known this trick for twenty years. I never have looked for an explaination of why it works but it obivously does. I will admit that I haven't tried it in a long time. The remote I've had for the last several years has rediculous range anyway.
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"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother." -Theodore Roosevelt