Agreed, I only use my AIRA minutes for work. I don't waste them on personal
questions.
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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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Re: [blind-democracy] phone
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