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It's worse than that. Since it's a company doing it, by definition their version of fact means "consistent with a world that benefits us". It's not even by majority consensus, which would favour "cool sounding" or "mind blowing" factoids but wouldn't really have any particular goal in mind, it's for profit.
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Good point. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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they cite their sources. you can check them for yourself.
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Please ignore the troll N_tro_P, he has some sick bigoted obsession with Ryan.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I only get my news from one site - Before It's News[^]
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Google is left of center just a tad. Watchem.
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It'd be a shame if they got political. I love their products.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There is a certain someone who seems rather obsessed with you. You might want to get some protection...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'm sorting out the spare room, and found a very black silver locket - obviously Herself's, it had a picture of her late son in it.
So I look on t'interweb, and it says to bring one litre of water to the boil with a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda, and a piece of aluminium foil, and drop the silver in it for ten seconds.
"What the heck" thought I. "She hasn't worn it for fifteen years, doesn't matter if it doesn't work". So I took out the picture, and tried it.
By heck. It only worked!  Shiny, bright, and silver ... that's some serious Brownie Points with Herself, right there!
Contrary to my hard felt belief, not everything on the internet is
1) CodeProject,
2) Pron,
3) Cat pictures,
or 4) Rubbish.
Verily, I am amazed!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Many of the commercial silver cleaning kits contain exactly that, at a much higher price, naturally. 
EDIT: My grandmother used to get rid of persistent silver stains with a tiny bit of fresh lemon juice, rubbed on the stain. Don't do this too often; it etches the silver.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Well that might get a try... 
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I've used that same technique a long time, but my recipe adds a teaspoon o' salt, and a wee jigger of white vinegar ... forget where I got that recipe, however, but it's a frequently cited one.
It would be interesting to A/B test with and without salt, and vinegar.
Did you use a glass container as usuallu suggested "?
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Nope - stainless steel saucepan. All fine, the pan wasn't discoloured.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...bring one litre of water to the boil with a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda...
Wonder where that recipe came from.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Nonsense. It should be 1 quart of water and 15 grams of baking soda.
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The internet version of Sturgeon's law[^] states that 99.997% of everything on the internet is crap. You found a part of the 0.003% that isn't.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If you want to pick up girls, should you keep your back straight, and bend with your knees?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I just let them notice I can lick my eyebrows . . .
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That's not what they had in mind . . . use your imagination.
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Would it work as well with nose hairs?
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Just how long do you let yours grow??
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Swedish style, I suppose?
Being raised on fish will do that to you.
(The aroma of fish? Get it ?)
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You're confusing me with Norwegians. They eat dried smelly fish.
I was raised on Moose and potatoes.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You're confusing me with Norwegians.
Swedes? Norwegians? Danes? Fins?
And the difference is ? ? ?*
* Mitigate your rage! At least I didn't include French in the list!
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