what do you think of this advice about soldering iron tips?

Michelle? Oh Michelle. Right. Post anywhere you want. Could you post more pics? We can make an exception.

Jack

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nJb
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Speaking of good old boys, my son landed a 6# walleye yesterday.

Jack

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nJb

Earn what? Women? Flux? Fish?

Jack

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nJb

The glass pipes are selling well?

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nJb

I think we got the point....

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Moonraker

top - bottom - middle... you think bottom posting is less ragged? not with this crew.

i wish we could color post...THEN we could have some FUN...

i say this thread has been pretty well trashed by now!! can we change it?

ar.

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arlene.carol

Apparently not everybody got the point, Moon.

Jack

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nJb

Not where I live...the only ones buying are stupid tourists.. what do they know?

ar.

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arlene.carol

With appropriate snippage interspersed is best.

Yours is in teal. njb is in red. Looks like color to me. (If you were using a real newsreader, you could set different colors to different nest depths as well.)

Done.

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Steve Ackman

Yeah, but some people like to be beat over the head with it.

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Steve Ackman

define 'real newsreader'...... as opposed to what??

is there a choice? i joined through google groups... was there another way to do it?

Steve...i LOVE the change!!! sheesh...

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arlene.carol

A newsreader connects to a news server, which is how all these articles are propagated. Usenet is in no way affiliated with Google Groups, which is, most simply, a parasitic web site that copies all the posts from usenet and repuplishes them on the web.

Usenet is... Well, let's do this the easy way... (obviously, make a mental substition of rec.crafts.glass for alt.coffee)

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is there a choice? i joined through google groups...> was there another way to do it? Use a news reader to connect to a news server. USUALLY, your ISP provides a news server for you to use. Not being able to read turkish, I don't know for certain, but there IS a machine named news.ttnet.net.tr so I'd bet a Chinese dinner that you can connect with that address.

As to newsreaders... You're using Firefox, so there's no embedded news capability with that. If you were using Mozilla, there's a built-in newsreader, albeit not particularly user friendly in the eyes of this Unix geek. Thunderbird is apparently the Firefox e-mail sidekick which also has support for news, so that might be a good bet for you... similar look and feel, I'd imagine.

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If you'd like to try something outside the typical Windowsuser's experience, something like slrn (the one I use) might appeal to you (screenshot on my machine):
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from people with too much time on their hands):
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like they don't have any Windows binaries though... pity)

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Steve Ackman

Any customers with money aren't stoooopid in my book.

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Glassman

try living in an area where tourism is the ONLY way to earn money... your opinion will change rapidly!

fortunately, my village has no tourism, but two villages over (6 miles from here) they get 'day trippers'...people ONLY visit once because the experience is too traumatic.

so i guess you'd have to say that tourists aren't all that stupid after all... if they return after the first experience, then they are stupid!

(if interested, check out 'Assos' at your search engine)

arlene south of Troy (and i don't mean NY)

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arlene.carol

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michele

not at all inhospitable!!! infact, it's VERY hospitable...at least, my village is... but go over to the TOURIST spot, Assos, and it's a totally different world.. even the locals admit it...money has this way of twisting people and making them something they either always were, or never wanted to be...but it happens...

this is a very livable place...or else i wouldn't have settled here.

if you EVER get the chance to visit rural Turkey, do it...you will NOT be disappointed..

and the weather's super!!

ar.

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arlene.carol

We tourists can feel the dislike in such places, and don't come back. The locals are the stupid ones, chasing away the easy dollars. How hard is it to be nice and appreciative?

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Glassman

Glassman wrote:

sorry if i didn't make myself understood...it's not the 'dislike'...it's the 'greed'... the locals LOVE tourists...but only see them as a source of income, not as human beings.

Assos is an ancient site. present day Assos is a tiny village perched on the remains of an ancient volcano...it's not much bigger than a small NJ town...if you've ever been to Smithville, NJ,..it's about that size (well, the last time i was there 20 years ago, smithville was the size of today's Assos)

...Aristotle (and i don't mean Onassis) spent 3.5 years there teaching, philosophizing, etc..., at the top of the 'acropolis' is yet another 'temple to athena'...unfortunately, the culture and tourism ministry has allowed the construction of cement columns to replace some of the fallen ones in the last three years...it's pretty awful if you ask me...but that's NOT the problem... until just recently, tourists were rarely seen here...then all of a sudden they started arriving by the bus load...the locals, very poor farmers and sheep herders, tried to pry some money out of the tourists by selling them locally produced items...woolen socks, crocheted lace doilies, maybe even an old rug or two...all were not particularly commercial but they WERE local production and foreigners thought they were getting a 'deal' ....then other tourists arrived and even more schlock hit the 'market'...now, as a tourist tries to make his/her way up to the MUSEUM (all of a sudden you have to pay to enter) at the top of the hill...a very hard climb up a stone road...you have to 'run the gauntlet' of vendors selling the same version of their stuff...it's all the same, if someone gets an idea for something new, within a week, the women are copying it exactly and they all try to sell it to the unsuspecting tourist...the road is only as wide as one car width...so you can imagine what it's like trying to walk past these shoulder to shoulder vendors, on both sides of the road, trying to get YOUR tourist dollars out of you before you see what the neighbor is selling...which isn't different from what they are selling.

it's a horrible experience! and hence...only one time visitors these days.

it wasn't like this when i first came to the region just 13 years ago...everyone was very naive and innocent. then the scent of 'money' hit ... like blood in the water, causing a 'feeding frenzy' that i find disgusting...

imagine for a second what your Coney Island would have been like with vendors, shoulder to shoulder, on a 16 foot boardwalk, shouting at you to buy their Hot Dogs...every vendor selling the SAME exact kind of hot dog...would YOU want to go back twice?

yeah, wait...only if you were hungry, right?

see my point now?

ar.

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arlene.carol

Sounds like the home of De Brady! Ba Da Bing!

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Glassman

Now, THAT's funny!

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Moonraker

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