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It would be as viable as disrupting the cassette industry. A printer is quickly becoming a thing the average person doesn’t own.


A printer is quickly becoming a thing the average person doesn’t own.

Even the U.S. Postal Service has noticed this.

When shipping a package, you can buy the postage online, then use a QR code on your phone to print the paid label at the Post Office and drop off the package at the same time.


That is easier than handing a clerk a banknote?


Easier than waiting in line for 20 minutes with who knows what virii circulating.



Actually, the plural of "vir" is "viri"; Latin "virus" doesn't really have a plural but if it did it might be "via"; "virii" isn't the plural of anything; if it were, it would be of "virius" which I'm pretty sure isn't a Latin word at all. (If there were an adjective "virus" its comparative would have "virius" as one of its forms, but it wouldn't become "virii" in the plural, and in any case I don't think there is any such adjective.)


Wiktionary shows it has "virī", with a long i. I guess the double i is just a way to write the long i when you don't have macrons at hand, but I have never studied Latin, so I don't really know.




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