Thanks for the spelling of AIRA. I have only heard it pronounced on
podcasts and so I had no idea how it was spelled. I seem to recall that
you get five minutes for free. I don't remember if that was per day or
per something else, but I remember thinking that if you have real quick
questions like what is in this jar that I am holding up you could get a
fairly lot of information in five minutes. But your comment about nearly
thirty dollars for thirty minutes tells me that you would have to be
very careful and use it very sparingly. Add that to the cost of the
phone and add the fact that I bet that most of the free apps would not
be nearly as good as the pay apps this smart phone stuff could end up
running into some really serious money.
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through
disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were
so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply
a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the
eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory
scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had
not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely,
you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now
have killed him.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
On 6/16/2021 6:20 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Yes I do have an AIRA subscription. I use it to read the serial numbers off of
laptops for work. I am required to record each serial number and of course they
are just on a printed sticker on the bottom of laptops. I pay $29 per month and
get 30 minutes of service from them.
Frank
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Well, I can think of an advantage. I forget the name of the company. I think it
might be Eye Rah. At least it sounds like that. Anyway, get their app and you
point the camera phone at pretty much anything and one of their agents tells
you what it is or answers other questions. Like what does that street sign say?
Which shirt am I about to put on? Read these instructions to me. And so forth.
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief
and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your patient's wish to
be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a
wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'!
Evolutionary theory scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself
had not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must
realize that we created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.” ― Irvin D.
Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept On 6/12/2021 7:03 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
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Roger,
The name of the cell phone I had, just came into my head. It was a Jitterbug
phone. Not a smart phone, just a cell phone that supposedly is easier to use
because of the size of the buttons. I guess I have one more thing to add. If
you have a computer and the latest version of the stream which has GPS, I don't
see what you would need an I phone for except to have the satisfaction of
owning a device that most sighted people own. It's expensive because,
eventually, you'll need to buy an updated model. Owning the latest stuff is
what Capitalism is all about.
Miriam
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief
and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your patient's wish to
be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a
wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'!
Evolutionary theory scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself
had not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must
realize that we created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.” ― Irvin D.
Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept