given some of the responses to this post, there just aren't enough mad passionate affairs in some slashdot lives.
it's just an affair fellas, it doesn't have to be the end of the world, the end of your life or even your whole life
but given that sex is a natural stress reliever, you may find yourself more stressed without it.
if this affair stuff all sounds too hard, get a pet... a dog or a cat or a fish or something... and fall in love with that instead.
if you think this affair stuff sounds really fun, play it safe if you don't want your sex life ruined by disease, and take precautions if you don't want to start a family
Stick your head outside the computer lab. English lit. and anthropology majors are a good bet.
take this woman's advice!
Ah yes, girls. Those mysterious creatures who hold the other half of human existance. While you're on your reverie about how beautiful love is, you failed to mention the dispair of rejection. It is impossible for a girl, who keeps her body in shape, to experience the type of rejection that all male geeks know and have come to accept as a way of life.
you think girls don't get rejected? everyone gets rejected at some point in their life. it's just that most people don't wallow in self pity when it happens. they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and explore other avenues. you can't force someone to find you attractive, or to like you. if you feel there's something about yourself that repels others (or yourself), do something about it, don't just sit there and feel sorry for yourself. guaranteed, self pity isn't sexy.
All that a female has to do to get some is look pretty and let the highest bidder into her pants. What of the lower bidders? What about the geeks who can only bring kindness and attentiveness to the table, chips whose value pales in comparison with what the jocks have: violence. Therefore, a male geek is always destined to look longingly at the jocks who have such incredible sexual value that they can often sleep with a different girl who is more beautiful and sensual than the last every week.
Maybe those jocks don't only value them for their looks. Not once in this post did you mention anything other than the superficial qualities of women. the closest you got was "more beautiful and sensual than the last", but even then it was attached to beautiful. if your kindness and attentiveness is only something you do to get "into her pants", and only if she's beautiful, it's not going to get you very far.
To the young ladies of college, I say fuck you. Fuck you feminists who blame the actions of your abusive boyfriends on the kind geeks. Fuck you optimists who have never had to hit on a person in your life. Fuck all of you. All we want is the joy and happiness of a relationship that can instantly render meaningless the cobwebs of antisocial lonliness.
Okay, the logic part of my brain is in pain here... you want the joy and happiness of a relationship that can instantly render meaningless the cobwebs of antisocial lonliness?
you can't render your past meaningless. you need to accept it and move on. your past doesn't equal your future, but if you deny your past, you won't get to the future because you won't learn from your past.
saying "fuck you" isn't a solution to antisocial behaviour or loneliness. antisocial behaviour from yourself will make you lonely, as you're isolating yourself from society... good ways to do this are to be a) defensive, b) blaming, c) bitter, d) abrasive (just for clarification, I would class "fuck you" as abrasive). if you want to be a part of society, you may want to avoid being the above.
you can't rely on someone else to clean your life up for you, it's your life, look after it yourself. take responsibility for your actions and if you want something changed, change it!
and a relationship? up until this point I thought you were looking to get laid... are you sure you're looking for a relationship? because that's not the signal you're giving off.
We will never get it, because it is up to the girl to choose who she lets into her pants,
of course it's up to the girl who she lets in her pants. otherwise, it would be rape.
and she will never choose a geek.
many girls have geek as their preferred flavour of male, for many more girls it's an undiscovered but intriguing flavour. don't associate being alone with your geekiness, it's far more likely to be something else.
Now I could post this Anonymously and avoid lonely geeks modding me to hell, but frankly, this is more important than slashdot karma. this is not meant as a personal attack, or an impersonal one for that matter, it's an opinion, to be read and considered. what you do after that is up to you.
don't waste your life feeling sorry for yourself, one day you'll stop, and wonder where the years went.
everyone has something that somebody else is envious of, everyone has something special about them and no one appreciates what they have the way they should.
I have seen far too many lovely geeks waste themselves in self pity and loneliness to not say something in response, and put my name to it.
If you're in Australia, check out seek.com.au. I've just moved cities, and every job I have gotten since I moved was from this site. (I found a few jobs for friends there as well)
Also:
*do* call a contact number in the ad if there is one, let them know you have sent in your resume, and ask them a few questions about the job.
this means it's more likely your resume will actually be *looked at*
*do* include important information in your resume cover sheet. eg - if typing speed is something they are likely to filter applications with, then include it on the cover sheet.
it saves them the time to read through the resume
*do* include when you are available for work on your cover sheet.
same as above.
*do* send your email applications in plain text. offer to send it in another format if this is preferred.
not all the people who filter job applications are good with computers, no matter what the industry.
*do* include special skills you have that may not be specifically job relevant.
I am fluent in the Phonetic Alphabet, and put it on my resume. I had a lot of companies and recruiters call me to ask what it was.
*do* email a company if they send you a virus in an email.
I received one from a company I had emailed my resume to. they offered me a job after I sent them an email detailing what virus they were infected with and how to remove it and prevent it in the future. I didn't accept their job offer, but I think they'll remember me if I contact them in the future.
I don't think it's possible to list all the books that have ever made me think, but here's a few.
"The Dispossessed", by Ursula LeGuin
The "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov
"Earth Abides" by George Stewart
most people have never heard of this book, but anyone who has seen or read "The Stand" by Stephen King will feel the echoes of this story throughout. I think the original was better.
"The Coelura" novella, and also the "Powers That Be" series, both by Anne McCaffrey
The "Incarnations" series by Piers Anthony
"The Unfinished Revolution" by Michael Dertouzos
"The Prophet", and also "Mirrors of the Soul" by Kahlil Gibran
"nothing is so dated as yesterdays vision of tommorow."
When these visions of tomorrow *do* come true, or get a little too close for our liking, one of the first things that happens is that these books are examined again.
As humans work to develop AI, we are aware of dangers like Hal from 2001.
There are people who want robots to be bound by Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Big Brother is taken into account when people think about face scanning technology.
Don't forget one of the points of Science Fiction is to entertain a scenario, and view the advantages and pitfalls of it.
There is no use-by-date for material that makes you think.
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"We've had to build all sorts of ancillary equipment, and do it on the cheap. For instance, one of things we had to do is ensure that the payload's spin was correct. To get the spin balance right we bought a second-hand car tyre balance from Bob Jane. It works beautifully!"
those creepy ad people might come out and hug you;o)
this is one of THE best ideas I've ever seen posted on Slashdot.
the biggest flaw of most online advertising is that it has a complete lack of targeting to an audience. in the 5 or so years I've been online, I have seen very few sites that do proper advertising, targeted to the audience it attracts.
not only is this a good idea for slashdot, but for online advertising in general. do you think those x10 camera ads would still be around if they could be modded down?
advertisers do need to know when they're being moronic... as an example, most spammers advertise services in the USA, IF for some reason I read my spam and thought it sounded like a great offer, I'd be unable to take it up, as I'm in Australia. most of it is more simple than that though... weight-loss ads on anorexia sites... expensive membership ads on freebie sites...
the web shapes itself, you KNOW the banners to ThinkGeek are popular... and since when has advertising been popular? since it gave you some USEFUL information
when the advertising is useful, I'll actually start noticing it, and maybe some more of the great free websites will survive...
it's one of the major advantages to Open Source as well, but also a pitfall...
I don't have any links for you, but if you need to exert tight control on a project, I don't think it's really something you can change. If you did, it'd also remove the advantages of lack of control as well
which weakens the best feature of online news, the linkage to past news, related people and topics.
Until cyber journalists stop being afraid of the link, television will still beat it, as newsreaders refer to past news with details and old footage. The net can do this much better, but not if journalists are too scared to use the link.
but points should go to the big news sites for starting to have comprehensive multimedia content that's relevant
Clarke's novel "The Other Side of the Sky" may be what you're looking for.
Heinlein also covered similar stuff in "The Man Who Sold the Moon"
and somewhere in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I think there was a reference to a Coke logo being created out of exploding suns, or something...
which is why not everyone does well in the school system, it's geared towards certain methods of learning.
personally I like to ask questions, the why nots as well as why, test the status quo, push the current boundaries... which has gotten me into trouble at school in the past. I like the big picture, and I like to take the future into account in all things.
some people learn best that way, some people learn well by memorisation, and others are more hands on, or audio or visual.
but information regurgitation is no good unless you can access it quickly. I don't know about you, but when I need to check something against the alphabet, I need to go through the rhyme, not from beginning to end, but from pauses in the music. not everyone does it that way. it just depends how you learned it, how often you use it and how well you've tried to improved your information access. I don't really try to improve my skill, maybe it's a little slower than some, but I don't really use it. memorisation isn't really useful if you can only repeat it, not "search" inside your memory for what you're looking for.
people are different, they do things differently, learns things differently, retrieve things differently and react differently to environments. it's a shame school systems rarely allow for that
If I buy one of these CDs, for use in my computer's CD player, and it doesn't play, and I have no warning that it may not, I want to be able to return it. I have grounds for a refund, that the product is not "fit for the purpose".
In Australia, there are several sections of the Trade Practices Act which may be relevant (IANAL)
SECT 74D
Actions in respect of goods of unmerchantable quality
SECT 74B
Actions in respect of unsuitable goods (1)
Where:
(a)
a corporation, in trade or commerce, supplies goods manufactured by the corporation to another person who acquires the goods for re-supply;
(b)
a person (whether or not the person who acquired the goods from the corporation) supplies the goods (otherwise than by way of sale by auction) to a consumer;
(c)
the goods are acquired by the consumer for a particular purpose that was, expressly or by implication, made known to the corporation, either directly, or through the person from whom the consumer acquired the goods or a person by whom any antecedent negotiations in connexion with the acquisition of the goods were conducted;
(d)
the goods are not reasonably fit for that purpose, whether or not that is a purpose for which such goods are commonly supplied; and
(e)
the consumer or a person who acquires the goods from, or derives title to the goods through or under, the consumer suffers loss or damage by reason that the goods are not reasonably fit for that purpose;
the corporation is liable to compensate the consumer or that other person for the loss or damage and the consumer or that other person may recover the amount of the compensation by action against the corporation in a court of competent jurisdiction.
If a CD won't play in a CD player, and a refund is refused as the package is opened, I think you would still have grounds as the product is not fit for the purpose.
Not to say you don't have to accept it, but *do* look it in the mouth, and take precautions.
The real concern with these agreements is not the advertising, but future censorship/blackmail from the sponsors
Yes advertising is intrusive, that's it's purpose.
But don't be distracted by the advertising, beware when the sponsers make "requests" for things from the schools, such as changing student behaviour, changing school policy etc.
NateKid said: If you let one bombing change your opinions about ANYTHING (other than stiffer package checks at the airport), Osama Bin Laden has completely won. The poiont of terrorism is to instill terror in civilians and in your case it looks like they've succeeded.
Some have said that allowing the attacks to change the way we think is wrong, and I think that argument is flawed.
People are more grateful for the good things they have and grateful for those who have survived. They are more aware of the world they live in, aware that vigilance is necessary and that freedom is not always easy.
Not learning anything from events is a backward step in evolution. Humans attempt to learn, to improve ourselves, it's what we do.
And that includes improvements in airport security *and* gratitude replacing taken-for-granted attitudes towards the police.
fosh said: Sure, the government may have "demonized" us before.
Putting aside the past mistakes of the police when they ask for your help (showing that you in fact can help and are capable) is putting aside pettiness for something more important, something constructive.
Pettiness begets fighting and achieves very little.
Maybe not all cops are heroes, but very little in this world is absolute. Be grateful for the good things you have and do what you can to change the bad things, without becoming bad yourself.
If you want to improve the police force, do something positive like joining it and doing it right.
This is one of the most insightful comments I've read about threats from technology
"We spend a lot of time worrying about extremely sophisticated threats," he said. "But less sophisticated threats can slip under the radar. People who want to hurt you can find a way to do it."
This can only be underlined by the events of September 11, where box cutters were used to destroy the WTC.
Thomas Jefferson said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Vigilance is the answer, not locking the barn door after the horse has bolted.
Slashdot Mirror
a lot of IMs have space for you to fill in information about yourself:
country, interests that people can search for, languages you speak, etc.
if this information was actually used, you might see something very different from their advertising.
kmfms.com
what does it stand for?
Kein Mitleid Für MicroSoft
or... No Pity For Microsoft
if you've ever wanted to know What's so bad about Microsoft?, then check em out.
given some of the responses to this post, there just aren't enough mad passionate affairs in some slashdot lives.
it's just an affair fellas, it doesn't have to be the end of the world, the end of your life or even your whole life
but given that sex is a natural stress reliever, you may find yourself more stressed without it.
if this affair stuff all sounds too hard, get a pet... a dog or a cat or a fish or something... and fall in love with that instead.
if you think this affair stuff sounds really fun, play it safe if you don't want your sex life ruined by disease, and take precautions if you don't want to start a family
Stick your head outside the computer lab. English lit. and anthropology majors are a good bet.
take this woman's advice!
Ah yes, girls. Those mysterious creatures who hold the other half of human existance. While you're on your reverie about how beautiful love is, you failed to mention the dispair of rejection. It is impossible for a girl, who keeps her body in shape, to experience the type of rejection that all male geeks know and have come to accept as a way of life .
you think girls don't get rejected? everyone gets rejected at some point in their life. it's just that most people don't wallow in self pity when it happens. they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and explore other avenues. you can't force someone to find you attractive, or to like you. if you feel there's something about yourself that repels others (or yourself), do something about it, don't just sit there and feel sorry for yourself. guaranteed, self pity isn't sexy.
All that a female has to do to get some is look pretty and let the highest bidder into her pants. What of the lower bidders? What about the geeks who can only bring kindness and attentiveness to the table, chips whose value pales in comparison with what the jocks have: violence. Therefore, a male geek is always destined to look longingly at the jocks who have such incredible sexual value that they can often sleep with a different girl who is more beautiful and sensual than the last every week.
Maybe those jocks don't only value them for their looks. Not once in this post did you mention anything other than the superficial qualities of women. the closest you got was "more beautiful and sensual than the last", but even then it was attached to beautiful. if your kindness and attentiveness is only something you do to get "into her pants", and only if she's beautiful, it's not going to get you very far.
To the young ladies of college, I say fuck you. Fuck you feminists who blame the actions of your abusive boyfriends on the kind geeks. Fuck you optimists who have never had to hit on a person in your life. Fuck all of you. All we want is the joy and happiness of a relationship that can instantly render meaningless the cobwebs of antisocial lonliness.
Okay, the logic part of my brain is in pain here... you want the joy and happiness of a relationship that can instantly render meaningless the cobwebs of antisocial lonliness?
you can't render your past meaningless. you need to accept it and move on. your past doesn't equal your future, but if you deny your past, you won't get to the future because you won't learn from your past.
saying "fuck you" isn't a solution to antisocial behaviour or loneliness. antisocial behaviour from yourself will make you lonely, as you're isolating yourself from society... good ways to do this are to be a) defensive, b) blaming, c) bitter, d) abrasive (just for clarification, I would class "fuck you" as abrasive). if you want to be a part of society, you may want to avoid being the above.
you can't rely on someone else to clean your life up for you, it's your life, look after it yourself. take responsibility for your actions and if you want something changed, change it!
and a relationship? up until this point I thought you were looking to get laid... are you sure you're looking for a relationship? because that's not the signal you're giving off.
We will never get it, because it is up to the girl to choose who she lets into her pants,
of course it's up to the girl who she lets in her pants. otherwise, it would be rape.
and she will never choose a geek.
many girls have geek as their preferred flavour of male, for many more girls it's an undiscovered but intriguing flavour. don't associate being alone with your geekiness, it's far more likely to be something else.
Now I could post this Anonymously and avoid lonely geeks modding me to hell, but frankly, this is more important than slashdot karma. this is not meant as a personal attack, or an impersonal one for that matter, it's an opinion, to be read and considered. what you do after that is up to you.
don't waste your life feeling sorry for yourself, one day you'll stop, and wonder where the years went.
everyone has something that somebody else is envious of, everyone has something special about them and no one appreciates what they have the way they should.
I have seen far too many lovely geeks waste themselves in self pity and loneliness to not say something in response, and put my name to it.
Also:
this means it's more likely your resume will actually be *looked at*
it saves them the time to read through the resume
same as above.
not all the people who filter job applications are good with computers, no matter what the industry.
I am fluent in the Phonetic Alphabet, and put it on my resume. I had a lot of companies and recruiters call me to ask what it was.
I received one from a company I had emailed my resume to. they offered me a job after I sent them an email detailing what virus they were infected with and how to remove it and prevent it in the future. I didn't accept their job offer, but I think they'll remember me if I contact them in the future.
I don't think it's possible to list all the books that have ever made me think, but here's a few.
"The Dispossessed", by Ursula LeGuin
The "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov
"Earth Abides" by George Stewart
most people have never heard of this book, but anyone who has seen or read "The Stand" by Stephen King will feel the echoes of this story throughout. I think the original was better.
"The Coelura" novella, and also the "Powers That Be" series, both by Anne McCaffrey
The "Incarnations" series by Piers Anthony
"The Unfinished Revolution" by Michael Dertouzos
"The Prophet", and also "Mirrors of the Soul" by Kahlil Gibran
"Ethics for the New Millennium" by the Dalai Lama
"No Logo" by Naomi Klein
"Dune" by Frank Herbert
"The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle
what's on your think list?
why? I really don't think it needs to be pointed out
"nothing is so dated as yesterdays vision of tommorow."
When these visions of tomorrow *do* come true, or get a little too close for our liking, one of the first things that happens is that these books are examined again.
As humans work to develop AI, we are aware of dangers like Hal from 2001.
There are people who want robots to be bound by Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Big Brother is taken into account when people think about face scanning technology.
Don't forget one of the points of Science Fiction is to entertain a scenario, and view the advantages and pitfalls of it.
There is no use-by-date for material that makes you think.
you can view a list of all the donations, some have messages to the artists, thanking them, or why they are sending the money.
Fairtunes.com
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Well worth downloading
From this article
"We've had to build all sorts of ancillary equipment, and do it on the cheap. For instance, one of things we had to do is ensure that the payload's spin was correct. To get the spin balance right we bought a second-hand car tyre balance from Bob Jane. It works beautifully!"
the first hit on "Cesium" in Google is: Songs of Cesium
on this page is a mention of Cesium Chloride... which (correct me if I'm wrong, I never did chemistry) I think is salt...
maybe we should take this article with a pinch of it...
the only software called Cesium that I could find is: clock and timing software for the Palm
if there isn't, how do you know it won't work?
if there is, it needs better visibility
those creepy ad people might come out and hug you ;o)
this is one of THE best ideas I've ever seen posted on Slashdot.
the biggest flaw of most online advertising is that it has a complete lack of targeting to an audience. in the 5 or so years I've been online, I have seen very few sites that do proper advertising, targeted to the audience it attracts.
not only is this a good idea for slashdot, but for online advertising in general. do you think those x10 camera ads would still be around if they could be modded down?
advertisers do need to know when they're being moronic... as an example, most spammers advertise services in the USA, IF for some reason I read my spam and thought it sounded like a great offer, I'd be unable to take it up, as I'm in Australia. most of it is more simple than that though... weight-loss ads on anorexia sites... expensive membership ads on freebie sites...
the web shapes itself, you KNOW the banners to ThinkGeek are popular... and since when has advertising been popular? since it gave you some USEFUL information
when the advertising is useful, I'll actually start noticing it, and maybe some more of the great free websites will survive...
it's one of the major advantages to Open Source as well, but also a pitfall...
I don't have any links for you, but if you need to exert tight control on a project, I don't think it's really something you can change. If you did, it'd also remove the advantages of lack of control as well
just my 2 cents
which weakens the best feature of online news, the linkage to past news, related people and topics.
Until cyber journalists stop being afraid of the link, television will still beat it, as newsreaders refer to past news with details and old footage. The net can do this much better, but not if journalists are too scared to use the link.
but points should go to the big news sites for starting to have comprehensive multimedia content that's relevant
this made me laugh...
hmm, small things amuse small minds...
Clarke's novel "The Other Side of the Sky" may be what you're looking for.
Heinlein also covered similar stuff in "The Man Who Sold the Moon"
and somewhere in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I think there was a reference to a Coke logo being created out of exploding suns, or something...
I really should have waited a few minutes for Cliff to fix it...
which is why not everyone does well in the school system, it's geared towards certain methods of learning.
personally I like to ask questions, the why nots as well as why, test the status quo, push the current boundaries... which has gotten me into trouble at school in the past. I like the big picture, and I like to take the future into account in all things.
some people learn best that way, some people learn well by memorisation, and others are more hands on, or audio or visual.
but information regurgitation is no good unless you can access it quickly. I don't know about you, but when I need to check something against the alphabet, I need to go through the rhyme, not from beginning to end, but from pauses in the music. not everyone does it that way. it just depends how you learned it, how often you use it and how well you've tried to improved your information access. I don't really try to improve my skill, maybe it's a little slower than some, but I don't really use it. memorisation isn't really useful if you can only repeat it, not "search" inside your memory for what you're looking for.
people are different, they do things differently, learns things differently, retrieve things differently and react differently to environments. it's a shame school systems rarely allow for that
If I buy one of these CDs, for use in my computer's CD player, and it doesn't play, and I have no warning that it may not, I want to be able to return it. I have grounds for a refund, that the product is not "fit for the purpose".
In Australia, there are several sections of the Trade Practices Act which may be relevant (IANAL)
SECT 74D
Actions in respect of goods of unmerchantable quality
SECT 74B
Actions in respect of unsuitable goods
(1) Where:
(a) a corporation, in trade or commerce, supplies goods manufactured by the corporation to another person who acquires the goods for re-supply;
(b) a person (whether or not the person who acquired the goods from the corporation) supplies the goods (otherwise than by way of sale by auction) to a consumer;
(c) the goods are acquired by the consumer for a particular purpose that was, expressly or by implication, made known to the corporation, either directly, or through the person from whom the consumer acquired the goods or a person by whom any antecedent negotiations in connexion with the acquisition of the goods were conducted;
(d) the goods are not reasonably fit for that purpose, whether or not that is a purpose for which such goods are commonly supplied; and
(e) the consumer or a person who acquires the goods from, or derives title to the goods through or under, the consumer suffers loss or damage by reason that the goods are not reasonably fit for that purpose;
the corporation is liable to compensate the consumer or that other person for the loss or damage and the consumer or that other person may recover the amount of the compensation by action against the corporation in a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECT 74C
Actions in respect of false descriptions
If a CD won't play in a CD player, and a refund is refused as the package is opened, I think you would still have grounds as the product is not fit for the purpose.
Not to say you don't have to accept it, but *do* look it in the mouth, and take precautions.
The real concern with these agreements is not the advertising, but future censorship/blackmail from the sponsors
Yes advertising is intrusive, that's it's purpose.
But don't be distracted by the advertising, beware when the sponsers make "requests" for things from the schools, such as changing student behaviour, changing school policy etc.
NateKid said: If you let one bombing change your opinions about ANYTHING (other than stiffer package checks at the airport), Osama Bin Laden has completely won. The poiont of terrorism is to instill terror in civilians and in your case it looks like they've succeeded.
Some have said that allowing the attacks to change the way we think is wrong, and I think that argument is flawed.
People are more grateful for the good things they have and grateful for those who have survived. They are more aware of the world they live in, aware that vigilance is necessary and that freedom is not always easy.
Not learning anything from events is a backward step in evolution.
Humans attempt to learn, to improve ourselves, it's what we do.
And that includes improvements in airport security *and* gratitude replacing taken-for-granted attitudes towards the police.
fosh said: Sure, the government may have "demonized" us before.
Putting aside the past mistakes of the police when they ask for your help (showing that you in fact can help and are capable) is putting aside pettiness for something more important, something constructive.
Pettiness begets fighting and achieves very little.
Maybe not all cops are heroes, but very little in this world is absolute. Be grateful for the good things you have and do what you can to change the bad things, without becoming bad yourself.
If you want to improve the police force, do something positive like joining it and doing it right.
This is one of the most insightful comments I've read about threats from technology
"We spend a lot of time worrying about extremely sophisticated threats," he said. "But less sophisticated threats can slip under the radar. People who want to hurt you can find a way to do it."
This can only be underlined by the events of September 11, where box cutters were used to destroy the WTC.
Thomas Jefferson said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Vigilance is the answer, not locking the barn door after the horse has bolted.
Apologies for mixing quotes and clichés