Wow! Purveyors of female cosmetics!......... Paul, I'm sure my friends in your local Police Force would love to hear that. Perhaps they can keep an eye for you in your Saab and 'arrange' to find a little white substance in the glove box. You'll enjoy the subsequent cavity search! I hear the use of synthetic gloves is optional by the Oz police!........Only messing with you, mate. Love the Avon comment..........made me nearly fall out of my chair laughing! 

Hehe, a lot of the cops I know are purveyors of female escorts... something the Crime and Misconduct Commission would love to hear about.

As for friends in the local police force... well I did have some until the Crime and Misconduct Commission discovered what they were doing.

Nah, the coppers I knew and worked with are pretty decent blokes who'd do a good turn and would help people honestly.

14 reasons why you shouldn't install Win 10... though personally I can think of a lot more.

Yes, I did read the article, and while the writer points to some positive aspects of the OS, those 14 reasons stiffened my resolve not to upgrade.

Still not mastered those door handles yet?

"However, on the bad side of things, pushing an update even after being fully tested can cause a serious headache to the end user. For example, there could be issues with graphic drivers, or a new patch wasn't fully tested on certain configurations. These and other scenarios can happen anytime, and if you're not a technical user, chances are it will be very frustrating trying to go back to the last known good configuration."

Have to admit, that is infuriating.

"9. Shutdown and reboot take a long time

Perhaps is not a big deal for many users, but it's to me. One of many things I liked from Windows 8.1 was the ability to reboot or shutdown in just a few seconds. I have a fairly new Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM machine, and I don't know what's going on with Windows 10, but now it can take minutes to reboot or shutdown.

Obviously, it's a problem that Microsoft have to address."

How odd. On the laptop and it is pretty low spec, it doesn't take that long. Intel Celeron Duo and 4GB/UEFI.

Win 7 and 8.1 have telemetry and other updates as well. It's not advertised but they're not so safe anymore either.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/list-of-windows-7-telemetry-updates-to-avoid.379151/

I'll pay that one.

Very interesting.... especially post #18 by Holysmoke regarding the 'phone home' funtions MS uses to snoop on all we do.  The fact that much of it cannot be disabled/uninstalled is annoying... if not disturbing.

voo

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Quoting Leo the Lion,

reply 85

I'd come knocking at the door? Nope, in my line of work we break down doors without introducing ourselves and if you're lucky we might have a search warrant 

 

Still not mastered those door handles yet?

Nah! mate. Can't seem to find them. Size 12 boot does the job and there's no better sound than hearing splintering wood

I left the Police Force a few years ago after a very enjoyable career in the UK. Loved it and I miss all my old mates back in the 'old country'. Moved to the US into Corporate Security Work for Disney and had a great time working for 'the mouse'. Great company and great people. Now I'm doing a bit of everything in the midwest...........Corporate.........Government. Once a cop always a cop!  

I wasn't actually a police officer as such.  No I worked in the Information Bureau dealing with criminal files and histories, etc.  I was responsible for officers getting the files required and ensuring they were replaced in their correct places when finished with.  I did apply to become a fully fledged officer, and was accepted, but my wife at the time said "I'm not being married to no fechen copper", so I withdrew my application.  In retrospect, I should have just gone through with it... cos about a year later she took off anyhow and left me to raise 2 kids on my own. 

What part of the UK are you from?   I moved with my family to Australia from Brixham, Devon in 1969, and though I missed all my old mates for the first 12 - 18 months or so, I soon made new ones, had my own family, and never really looked back.  This is where my roots are now so it's unlikely I'll ever go back there to live.

....translates as 'there's a warrant out for 'im' in the old Dart...

East Coast and London............Great times..............

I spent a little time in London, sightseeing and such, but I was more a country lad and wasn't overly keen on big cities  I'm still much the same these days.  I live about 45 minutes by train from Brisbane but have not been in there for 10 years or more, opting to do all I need in Ipswich, which is more a large country town than a city.  I never liked the hustle and bustle of the big smoke, with traffic fumes so thick you could cut 'em with a knife, and everybody in so much of a hurry to get there yesterday.

As for the East Coast, I once got as far as Dover on a school trip, though that's more South East

Small world, bud............I lived in Ipswich in the UK for some time.

I was supposed to go on a school trip for History that included Ipswich, Hastings and Harwich, but I got the measles and missed out.... AND having to do the associated assignments because I wasn't there for the in-situ lessons.  Oh well, I got to go on the Coventry trip that included Shakespeare country.

I got to go on quite a few school trips because of my love of History and Geography.... Stonehenge was a beauty, as was Lands End, Canterbury Cathedral and the London Museum.  Ah, how my school years provided me with some of the best days of my life, and with the UK steeped in so much history I was never without somewhere of interest to go.  If there is one thing I miss about the UK nowadays it would be the history and all the historical sites.