I don't know it is protection enough, but my golden rule is that if something is too good to be true it is usually a scam.

Easy way to make money? Probably a scam. Unbelievably attractive and rich person is into you? Probably a scam.

Etc. etc.

You know what, now that your mention it, wasn't the explanation that the signal was reflected back to the surface due to the ionising radiation of something, so the beam was kinda split or doubled. So my premise was wrong.

A distinction between a teleporter and a transporter...

To teleport implies the original matter is instantly moved from one place to another so there would be no destruction and reconstituted copy. A wormhole would seem to be the only realistic way that could be achieved.

A transporter, well that means copy then kill. No one knows if the kill part is painful because noone survives it. I find it funny Riker's copy is actually the "original" and his lack of death is considered a transporter accident. Yet he is the one treated like the copy...

And all that said, barclay's experience in the transporter beam is more suggestive of a wormhole style device.

I don't know why I bothered to write all this out...

You are assuming a 5 day work week apparently...

When the great AI bubble bursts, there is chance that the chip manufacturers are not only going to suddenly have a drop in demand, but also their surplus stock will be competing with a nearly new second hand market that may be flooded with stock from collapsed companies unless those companies are fully bought out by their competitors without any attempt at loss recovery.

At least that is my unrealistic hope and I'm sticking to it.

Omarchy will henceforth be known as Oligarchy Linux.

Moontan

No they say "Your choice to move away from your family or their choice to move away from you shouldn't adversely affect all of the other children in your child's class because the teacher has limited time and is now spending it catching up your child who missed foundational concepts for the stuff that is being taught when they get back.

You are not entitled to cheap travel. I never got to travel all over the world as a child because, spoiler, we couldn't afford it, but people also didn't feel so entitled to cheap travel that they were taking their kids out of school for cheaper flights. You just didn't fly.

That's nuts!!

And for the record, we are not talking about large commercial products, more niche medical products that are much lower volume and much more expensive.

Yes, and created a stigma

Jeez, why the aggression? I dislike meta too, but there are other products that have glasses mounted cameras that do offer zoom and text to speech for macular degeneration that he now won't consider because people react like you just did to the meta product .