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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I heard about that from my folks who heard about it on the news. The only thing my echo has done is that Alexa starts talking out of the blue, one time it sounded like it was reading from a Wikipedia page, but it hasn't happened recently. Strange. URL: http
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Did anyone have issues with Alexa laughing randomly? I heard about that, but Joan never had that issue, thank goodness. Her health isn't perfect, and I don't want anything to scare her. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357691#p357691
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Amen to that, this is one March I have no wish to remember. Thanks for the thoughts. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=357437#p357437 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @Orko,That sucks on the levels I can not imagine, and here is hoping things improve. plus march has almost ended...I havent posted in one of these topics ever,but I am having a terrible terrible time of it, and reading Orkos posts I thought I would just write
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Man! I am having a terrible March! First I get a bronchitis infection that takes most of the month to get rid of, then I get the news that my mother has passed away, then I get the news that I might have prostate cancer, and now a leak in the cold water pipe
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Although the urologist explained to me what would happen during the prostate biopsy, I was still curious what other people might have experienced.Man! People will talk about anything on youtube! I found a number of descriptions of the prostate biopsy experience
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I will eventually, but if all this service targets is scammers, it's not really what I'm looking for because I get very few of those types of calls. What I'm looking for is a way to stop the telemarketing calls, and I think my idea of putting the disconnected
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I've had these exams before as part of an annual physical exam, to me they aren't unpleasant, nor are they pleasant, they just are.Unless they come up with a better way to screen for this type of cancer, you can look forward to it becoming a part of your annual
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 The scammers actually rang me back the other day. it was quite hilarious Woman on the phone: "Hello this is Stellar from Microsoft, we would like to talkk to you about your computer"Me: (In my most stentorian tone), "Go away you dirty rotten scamm
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Orko, did you like it? It's called the Jolly Roger Telephone Service or something like that—just Google it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356150#p356150 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 My grandma had breast one and I have an uncle who had the one for males. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356129#p356129 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Orko, you should listen to the videos and read the stories I posted. You may find them amusing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356191#p356191 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @tjt1234I didn't listen to the video, I just wanted to know the name of the service. Thanks! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356154#p356154 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @tjt1234What is this service called?@DarkAt present, all they know is that my PSA levels are high, which is an indicator for possible prostate cancer. But other things can cause PSA levels to go up, like a bacteriological infection, like bronchitis. Since
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Youch Orko, as Cansa goes that is a uniquely nasty one, I hope it does manage to clear up and that Chemo isn't as bloody awful as its reputed to be. Cansa is something I'm constantly petrified of for my lady since as she had retinal blastoma at birth she's
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Youch Orko, as Cansa goes that is a uniquely nasty one, I hope it does manage to clear up and that Chemo isn't as bloody awful as its reputed to be. Cansa is something I'm constantly petrified of for my lady since as she had retinal blastoma at birth she's
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Well orko, there's something even better that you can get. There's a service people in the US can subscribe to. When the phone number receives a call from a known scammer's number, it automatically goes to the answering machine, and a recording interacts
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Can we get a universal Fuck Cancer! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356013#p356013 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @AngelWell, I'm glad your grandma is now cancer free, however I seriously doubt that she had the same kind of cancer I might have, mine is unique to males.Look Steven Fry if you realy want to know. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355998
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 First Orko, that is terrible, my grandma had that 10 years ago, she had 2 surgeries and now she is healthy.Second, these recordings arre funny, I can do them but in Romanian, so, understandable for alot of people here, I am called by alot of them
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 There used to be a device called Telezapper. What it did was play the three tones indicating a disconnected line as soon as the call is answered whether by a person or an answering machine. The effect of this was that for telemarketers using an automated dialer
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I don't want them to stop calling me personally, I want to anoy the hell out of them until they can't take it anymore. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355922#p355922 ___ Audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 The way I deal with telemarketers is simple, as soon as I know it's a telemarketer, I don't say anything, I just hang up. Eventually, they get the message and stop calling. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355860#p355860
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Orko, that's dreadful.Well, here are 133 stories about how to deal with telemarketers for your enjoyment: https://notalwaysright.com/tag/telemarketing/ URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355841#p355841
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Hey guys. Just wanted to let you know that I have uploaded 3 scammer recordings to my website. Click on the website button below my post, click on the menu button that shows up, and then click scammer recordings and it should work. Please keep in mind that all
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 [[wow]] Orko that's terrible, I really hope that isn't the case, please keep us posteted whats happening. I don't know if we can do much from here but we can at least listen and be a place to deposit various woes.Btw I'm actually 35 myself if you were wondering
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Man, I hate getting old! Things start falling apart. I don't know how old you are, and I don't really need to either, but I'm 60, so I'm getting up there,if I haven't already arrived. Last January, after going ten years without catching a single one, I caught
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Here in the states we have what is called the National Do Not Call List, in theory all you have to do is list your number in the list and telemarketing operations are not allowed to call you.But our wonderful and thoughtful politicians caved
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I think I'll leave the fraud squad to deal with them thanks, since it sounds like a fairly prolific operation, and if they have a local Uk phone number they should be fairly easy to track down. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355634#p355634
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I think I'll leave the fraud squad to deal with them since it sounds like a fairly prolific operation, and if they have a local Uk phone number they should be fairly easy to track down. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355634#p355634
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Yeh, please post them if you can, I like to watch them on youtube for example, they are alot of romanian ones too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355580#p355580 ___ Audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Hey Dark, I actually like to call scammers and give them a difficult time, of course if they're actual scammers and not just regular telemarketers. If you want them to leave you alone, just send me an email or PM with their phone number, (preferably email
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Hey Dark, I actually like to call scammers and give them a difficult time, of course if they're actual scammers and not just regular telemarketers. If you want them to leave you alone, just send me a PM with their phone number and I'll be happy to keep them busy
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I was a bit staggered at the amount of telemarketing there is in the states, it seems my lady's sister was getting calls once every three or four days. Here there is a good deal less, especially if your number is registered with the telephone preference service
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I am sorry for you, Orko. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355548#p355548 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 I keep getting calls from some place promising to help me with my student loan debt, which is a legitimate problem here in the states. The funny thing is I paid off my student loans years ago. To those calls, I don't say anything, I just hang up. Eventually
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Youch Orko sorry to hear about your mum. That actually comes rather close to home since my lady's mother died in November of 16, and father is not a very well man and probably won't be around for long either, indeed it's a rather difficult situation since he's
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 For the past several months, my sister and I have been looking forward to a trip from Tampa, Florida to Seattle, Washington to visit our mother who was moved to a nursing home last fall because she could no longer live on her own. Yesterday, we got some very sad
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Hi Orko, Bronchitis is a pain literally. Well I had an interesting morning today. I was phoned at half past nine by a gentleman calling himself "mike" who purported to be from Microsoft, he was in an urgent hurry to tell me that things had been downlo
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 If I recall correctly, there are no save points in episode 0 because it is rather short. But it's been months since I played it, September I think, and my memory could be wrong.Here I thought with the antibiotics, this bronchitis would be gone soon, but late
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @vaibhavbhandari I'm rather jealous it's summer where you are. Thankfully after one of the worst februaries on record and March that was so thick in snow it wasn't funny, it finally! seems to be warming up around here which my lady is very relieved about
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Earlier this morning, I gave up and headed into the emergency room. Considering how bad this flu season has been and how many people have died from it and suspecting that I had it, I wasn't willing to take any more chances. Well, the good news is I don't have
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Well, after several days, I'm probably headed into the emergency room. Whatever this is just keeps getting worse. Yesterday my cheek bones became tender, applying any kind of pressure to them hurt, plus my ears felt like I needed to equalize them but my head
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @Orko, So thank god that it's summers here cause I don't actually like winters lol! I hope you get well soon! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354587#p354587 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 This cold is just as bad as the last one, it just took longer to get rolling. It's also different which is probably why I caught it.This one comes with a sore throat and a headache that won't quit that the last one didn't have. This one also doesn't have
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 That would be annoying if it went down while streaming something and it wouldn't stop . I'd imagine that all the speech to text stuff is done in the cloud, so it wouldn't be able to understand what you said and you'd probably have to unplug the damn thing just
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Dark, it could also be that Alexa is still new over there, where as it's been around for better than two years here. Not sure if how old the service is has anything to do with it, but I would imagine that the Alexa service in the US uses a lot more servers than
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Funny Orko, I don't think I've seen the Alexa go down like that at my end, then again my wife and I only use it a time or two each day to listen to the news or play some games etc not to stream stations or continuously, so it might be that I've just got lucky. I
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Yeah, the Echo does the same thing when you press the microphone button, my problem was an is, I don't remember ever turning off the microphones. That being said, I'm sure the Echo also turns the light ring red as well, unfortunately, unless I take the Echo down
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 @Orko, yes the light ring goes red when the mikes are off, also though the echo dot produces slightly different bonk sounds for turning the mike on and off so if suspect the mikes are off and hitt the button you can tell by the bing whether you've just turned
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Happy birthday Ironcross32.And please, tell me if the Alexa goes down again this month, cause if it does that, I will buy the google home mini instead of ecodot. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354405#p354405
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 LOL! Now I feel really stupid.What I thought was the Alexa service being down was just the Echo with the microphones turned off!Well, at least I now know that the microphone setting is persistent in that it survives the Echo being powered off.There is probably
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 LOL! Now I feel really stupid.What I thought was the Alexa service being down was just the Echo with the microphones turned off!Well, at least I now know that the microphone setting is persistent in that it survives the Echo being powered off.There is probably
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 It looks like Alexa may be down for quite a while, my Echo lost its connection with Alexa this morning, and now, about five hours later the service is still not available. If this keeps up, I may start seriously looking at a Google Home. Having Alexa order stuff
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018 Youch didn't realize I had the year wrong, still that is what edit function is for . Alexa hasn't been bad for me in general in terms of connectivity, but the one thing that irritates me are the amount of times you ask Alexa for something and it tells you
