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Until the day someone breaks into his house or steals his car or worst. Then "da ppoliss nevva uokks".
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I've had my house broken into, and I've had two cars stolen.
The police were ******* useless; all they did was cost me time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know - to a friend of mine someone broke into his house and the cops told him, referring to the thieves, "they have to make a living too!".
And a chronicle fact: a man hears thieves trying to break in, he arms his legally kept gun and shouted "I am armed: get away". The b***ards called the cops, who confiscated the gun and the gun license from the guy.
So yes, police IS useless and costly. But I dislike more all those ACAB guys who then runs to them crying for help when there's trouble.
EDIT: I can't say c o c k s as in c o c k ing a gun. It is automagically beeped!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Then say cóck instead!
veni bibi saltavi
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I don't know about a proper job, there are times I would like some of those mofus to do the bloody job at hand. This morning I wasted a good two hours trying to get an answer out of the Met Police.
Me: "Has the request been dealt with?"
Plod: "You will need to speak to the case officer, let me put you through to my PC Woodentop."
Woodentop: "This case is being handled by PC Plod, let me put you through."
... [ad inifinitum]
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: [ad inifinitum]
Sorry to hear that.
The Solution: Legalize Crime
What they should do is legalize crime. Then, the beauracrats would create all kinds of forms for the criminals to fill out and the criminals would be so busy filling out everything in triplicate that they wouldn't have time to steal other people's stuff. 
I know. I know. Ingenius!
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newton.saber wrote: The Solution: LegalizeLicense Crime
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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...from Android 5.0.2 to Version 4.3 or 4.4 as the intermittent freezes, slugs, and restarts are really getting on my nerves. When it works, it's fine - but the rest of the time it sits there and does nothing at all (other than tempt me to throw it at a wall). Google: you dropped the ball on this one for the Nexus 7...
So, it's not too bad to change the OS back, but it wipes the device, as you would expect. I want to back it up first, just to make sure. A look round the internet says that Helium is the best of the "Free" backups, so I go for it. PITA to get working with PC software and drivers needed that don't seem to communicate at all, but finally I get it working.
And it'll back up fine...but I need to "buy the full version in order to restore". 
Is it just me that thinks that makes this rather useless? It's got ad support anyway, so why make it a waste of time as a free version? Stupid, stupid...because it makes me less likely to buy the full product, rather than more.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We make backup daily, but never restore it - so why should you
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: .from Android 5.0.2 to Version 4.3 or 4.4 as the intermittent freezes, slugs, and restarts are really getting on my nerves.
And I no longer wonder why you haven't started learning Android programming 
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Android is a damn good tablet / phone OS: it's just the latest version is so poor that's it's unusable in practice. I'm sure Google will sort it out - eventually - but in the meantime I'm going back to a version that works (if I can backup what I have...I'd hate to lose my Carmageddon car collection  )
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I have one myself, and I have never updated anything, so its probably under surveillance by Edward Snowden lookalikes. Never did try to program on it though.
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Carmageddon car collection Laugh |
that's a strange way of saying sheep pron
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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This one in particular[^] - it's a PITA to steal, and just sooooo destructive to play with!
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OriginalGriff wrote: latest version is so poor that's it's unusable in practice
I have the original Nexus 7 too and I wondered when they'd finally release a version which was worse than previous.
It often seems this is every software's destination: to continue adding functionality that is so fantastic that it is unusable.
Anyways, I'm in the US and I have never been notified of the 5.x version and am just lucky that way. I'm still on 4.4.4.
Honestly, sorry to hear you had to go through these pains.
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The problem with making back-ups of app info and config is that some of the settings are based on the android version, so the apps won't work with those settings if you downgrade.
For non-app files, I'd just use ES3 or total commander to upload the files to a PC.
OriginalGriff wrote: Is it just me that thinks that makes this rather useless? It's got ad support anyway, so why make it a waste of time as a free version? Stupid, stupid...because it makes me less likely to buy the full product, rather than more.
Good developers and good businessmen. Never the twain shall mix.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My solution for this is to not put anything worth backing up on my Android device.
And frankly, based on my experience with Android so far, there's no valuable information I'd *want* to even give it in the first place.
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Disinfect the wounded current and take the poem by the beginner ace to the sixth bearing. (11)
The wounded are dyeing to be clean
modified 10-Feb-15 7:17am.
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"Capacitate"?
Sorry, my bad. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
modified 10-Feb-15 5:14am.
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Codeproject?
poem - ode
ace - pro
clutching at straws - Pompeyboy.
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You feel that CodeProject is wounded and needs cleansing?
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He's clearly been to QA...
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That's more a cesspit than a wound.
I know you know what the answer is. Just trying to avoid setting one for tomorrow?
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I did one yesterday!
Somebody else's turn...
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I worry that I might have made this one a little too difficult.
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