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*)

That is, he lives with the wife in Sweden, the parents live in the US, the kid lives in NSW... heh.

BTW, an interesting fact about wives which I'd forgot in between marriages: They ring their mothers and talk to them for at least 2 hours every weekend. Do you have any bloody idea what a 2-hour POTS call from Stockholm to Guangzhou costs? If it weren't for Skype, I'd be living in a cardboard box. :D

TFTFY, says the bloke with US parents, an Aussie daughter, and a Chinese wife (we got married in September, if anyone cares) with whom he lives in Sweden.

That would be Sakhalin.

Some Americans recall the alternative, perhaps.

Or did you think that li'l ol' war was just going to end itself?

Don't you mean, "'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds"?

Well, we *did* get free international video calling and a rather nice operating system out of the deal.

But, yeah, it feels like the dream is pretty much over.

Bit of both IMNSHO.

I call bullshit. I have plenty of visa stamps from Malaysia, Singapore, and China, and a Swedish resident permit (These United States are good enough for a passport but not good enough to actually live in any more, eh?). And I tend to carry a lot of personal electronics. Yet, while the TSA idiots tend to be, well, idiots, I've never been singled out for special attention.

They don't have to. "Collateral damage" and all that.

(Do you think we were all born yesterday, or what?)

..and the occasional teenaged girl... but please don't let this get in the way of your generalisations...

(And now I've posted my first--and hopefully last--link to a snuff video. Thanks for that.)

As opposed to all of that nice, clean cash in your wallet, which very likely carries only trace amounts of cocaine?

Really? The shared clipboard works great for me. I use it almost every day without issue between a Linux host, and some Linux and Windows guests.