Back in the day, the Merry Pranksters used to drive around SF Bay in a van marked International Cocaine Importers & Exporters SA / San Francisco - Ciudad Juárez - Lima.

A real-life public defender instead of a Saul Goodman?

I don't get it.

Having read this, I find myself wanting really badly to smoke a blunt and listen to some Jefferson Airplane. I'm thinking Crown of Creation.

Touché. :)

Well... It's shorter than "Whitewater".

We've had mind control for a few thousand years. It's called "religion".

I see that QLD hasn't changed much since I left Brissy in '07.

And calling Australia costs me 0 öre/minute, since my kid is apparently the only member of my family clueful enough to install and use Skype.

It's time for POTS to be put out to pasture, in any case.

You were using Skype strictly for IM?

The Android client worked just fine prior to the MS takeover, thanks.

Since then, they've been dumbing down the interface and removing functionality from it just as fast as they can.

I sometimes get better audio quality via Skype than I do making POTS calls, on the same mobile phone.

I remember when cigarettes reached 60 cents a pack and I swore I'd quit if they ever reached a dollar.

Now they cost me about 50 Swedish crowns, so I'm not sure whether that means I have to quit now, or what. ;-)

That's right. Now, can some developers kindly learn this, and apply it?

I have similar issues with my mother and my daughter.

Can't get Mom to use Skype because it's some program that didn't actually come with her PC and it's therefore Unknown and therefore Too Scary.

Can't get the kid off Skype because none of her school friends have ever heard of Viber or Jitsi, and therefore they're Unknown and therefore Not Fully Sick.

(Dad is even worse: He just says, "This would all work out a lot better if everybody would just switch to AppleTalk." *facepalm*)