It’s extremely easy, you just install AdGuard.
In the US you either had unlimited SMS or no SMS plan at all, in which case you got charged for every single message, sent or received. But I remember having unlimited SMS as early as 2003.
If you had no SMS at all then you certainly didn't have a data plan, which ruled out WhatsApp entirely.
That’s easy: unlimited SMS was common on most mobile plans in the US as early as the mid-2000s. Unlike the rest of the world, Americans had no financial incentive to use WhatsApp.
Yes, shields normally let transporters pass right through and definitely need to be specifically configured to block transporter beams. That’s why no away team has ever been stranded because their ship had to raise shields.
Thank you. It’s not a proper Trek vs. Wars thread until someone busts out the canon card. I can’t believe it took 5 hours!
Well now we've just arrived at MAD, in space. Both sides deploy their Star Killers and both galaxies are rendered uninhabitable.
Most of the time they're "blasters," sometimes they're "turbolasers" or "lasers." Star Wars canon is a hot mess but they are most commonly defined as charged particle beam weapons, i.e. they're phasers by a different name.
Soran's device was essentially an anti-bomb, based on how Worf described it:
Trilithium is a nuclear inhibitor. In theory, it could stop all fusion within a star.
If you shot it at a Star Destroyer I think you'd just give a handful of unlucky stormtroopers trilithium poisoning.
You're very right... and yet I gleefully wade into it every time...
Transporters block shields regardless of modulation. You can modulate weapons to penetrate shields, but transporters are trickier. "We can't get the away team back because shields are up!" would be a non-issue if the shields could be modulated to block weapon fire but allow transporters.
Thank you for looking into it!