Nothing you do to one of the particles is going to noticeably affect anything about the other particle's measurement by itself. Any link between the particles i

Nothing you do to one of the particles is going to noticeably affect anything about the other particle's measurement by itself. Any link between the particles is only apparent by comparing both the measurements together. Imagine you had a machine print out two envelopes with the same random number inside. You and a friend take these envelopes and each go 1 lightyear in separate directions. When you open your envelope, you will instantly know what number was in your friend's envelope. There's no usable FTL communication here. Burning your envelope won't communicate anything FTL to your friend. This just means that when you meet up again, he'll say he believes that you got a 7, and you'll say that he's wrong because you threw away the entanglement first by burning your envelope without looking at it. There are plenty of interesting quirks about about quantum entanglement that this model doesn't contain, but it should cover the lack of FTL communication potential correctly.