Adequacy front page
Stories Diaries Polls Users
Google

Web Adequacy.org
Home About Topics Rejects Abortions
This is an archive site only. It is no longer maintained. You can not post comments. You can not make an account. Your email will not be read. Please read this page if you have questions.
Poll
The job of the military:
Protect our homeland. 6%
Blow stuff up and kill people. 37%
Just plain kill people. 12%
Keep teenagers out of jail. 18%
Provide untapped markets for weapons-grade plutonium. 0%
Easter-egg hunts in the backwards-ass countries of this world. 25%

Votes: 16

 Controversial Wallpaper

 Author:  Topic:  Posted:
Mar 30, 2002
 Comments:
Fresh from my Internet archives:

Some "alternative" desktop wallpaper for you.

diaries

More diaries by tkatchev
Fuck the geeks.
Totalitarian America
This just in:
A Question for Americans.
For Inden.
Hell in your Handbasket
Another one bites the dust...
Another terrorist act.
OMG, ESR is a troll!
Kuro5hin
Win a fabulous trip to North Korea.
Contemporary Russian Poetry
Contemporary Russian Poetry pt. II
Happy Constitution Day!
Postmodern Art, Pt. I
Postmodernist Art, Pt. II
Contemporary Russian Poetry, Pt. III
Babylon Must Fall.
Happy New Year!
Weblog Pornography
Discover the Russia you never knew.
"New Chronology": As Requested.
LOTR: Please don't kill me.
The Satanic Nature of Kuro5hin is Revealed.
Link Propagation.
(Reading list)
The Benefits of Browsing Slashdot.
Kuro5hit Update
Serious Inquiry about Paganism
Liberalists celebrating Hilter's birthday.
Happy Mayday!
Brilliant Kuro5hin article.
Please excuse the rudity.
Update
Oh ghod this is rich.
Another mindless link.
P.S. Warning: it is a large JPEG file that weighs in at all of 666 kilobytes. Really.

       
Tweet

Why controversial? (1.00 / 1) (#1)
by The Mad Scientist on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 10:18:54 AM PST
a) It's just a reminder of fragility of our technology.

b) The file size is 651 kB, as one kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes.

c) 651 kB isn't much large. I have some aerial photographs over 10 megs per file.


I think... (none / 0) (#2)
by tkatchev on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 11:43:44 AM PST
...that you need to change the SIM-card implanted in your wetware, dude.

P.S. Don't talk "computer" to me, because I could take you with one hand, blindfolded. Really, don't mess with me. I don't want bloodshed here.


--
Peace and much love...

Oh...? (none / 0) (#5)
by The Mad Scientist on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 12:58:17 PM PST
...that you need to change the SIM-card implanted in your wetware, dude.

No chip implants yet, sorry.

P.S. Don't talk "computer" to me, because I could take you with one hand, blindfolded. Really, don't mess with me. I don't want bloodshed here.

So why you made so amateurish mistake?

The only people claiming that 1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes are clueless users and hard drive salesmen. The difference between them is that the harddrive salesmen know they are lying.

You also still hadn't answered why you consider this picture controversial. Actually, it is just a small-scale mishap; no more than two streets away the buildings are undamaged. It's nothing when we compare it with the photographs from ie. earthquake zones.


Like I said. (none / 0) (#7)
by tkatchev on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 01:20:15 PM PST
Don't mess with me when it comes to talking "computer". I'll eat you for breakfast and won't even spit out the bones. You may consider this your second warning.

(I am really, really tired of moron pseudo-oldbies like Mr. Scientist. If he wants "techtalk", he better be sure that he can handle it. Somehow, I doubt it; no serious computer professional will quibble about the number of bits in a kilobyte.)


--
Peace and much love...

What honor. (none / 0) (#8)
by The Mad Scientist on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 02:55:51 PM PST
Don't mess with me when it comes to talking "computer". I'll eat you for breakfast and won't even spit out the bones.

Note: Mad scientists tend to be hard to swallow and impossible to digest.

You may consider this your second warning.

Oh! What honor! Will I get third one too? :)

I am really, really tired of moron pseudo-oldbies like Mr. Scientist.

Maybe pseudo. I admit no more experience with the mainframes than playing Zizalicka on a PDP-11. Good old green terminals...

If he wants "techtalk", he better be sure that he can handle it.

Whatever you can come up with I seen worse. I used to drink tea with nuclear physicists and dine with medics.

Somehow, I doubt it; no serious computer professional will quibble about the number of bits in a kilobyte.

Only in specific cases and/or for fun.


 
Oldbies (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous Reader on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 03:31:34 PM PST
If he wants "techtalk", he better be sure that he can handle it.

Yup. Russians talking about the latest Russian computer technology can only be understood by people like Grace Hopper, Doug Engelbart, Marvin Minsky, etc.

no serious computer professional will quibble about the number of bits in a kilobyte.

Absolutely, the British Computer Society were going on about it recently in the Letters pages, and they're a bunch of middle managers who wish they were serious computer professionals. I think this link has the best explanation. 1 kb = 1000 bits. 1 kB = 1000 bytes. 1 Kb = 1024 bits. 1 KB = 1024 bytes.


 
don't mind him. (none / 0) (#6)
by Yoshi on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 12:58:41 PM PST
He's just trying to show off to live up to his "Scientist" name. All the octa bits and kilograms and kiBBles in the world won't earn you a PhD, TMS.

 
nice pic, but... (none / 0) (#3)
by freshgroundpepper on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 11:47:53 AM PST
where are the world trade center buildings? I can't find them.

Perhaps... (5.00 / 1) (#4)
by tkatchev on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 11:53:30 AM PST
...they are hiding under that big pile of trash?

Just an idea... Don't kick me for it. :)


--
Peace and much love...

The terrorplane quiz (none / 0) (#10)
by because it isnt on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 04:43:34 PM PST
Here's an interesting question that my friends were pondering recently. Imagine you are an Acme-brand terrorist with two fuel-laden jetliners at your disposal. For any particular country, which two buildings would you fly them into for maximum political/social/economic impact?

For England, I picked the Palace of Westminster (mostly political, although there's a backup Parliament for such an emergency) and the Bank of England (mostly economic, and also knocks out most of the transport links to the financial City).

What would you pick for Russia, tkatchev?
adequacy.org -- because it isn't

right smack into the Cristall factory (none / 0) (#11)
by Anonymous Reader on Sat Mar 30th, 2002 at 08:52:41 PM PST
Moscow State Wine Warehouse No. 1 on the banks of the Yauza river. Except for a brief bout with prohibition, that factory symbolizes Russia's continuous (pre 1900) state monopoly on the production and distribution of the national elixir, vodka.


WTF are you talking about? (none / 0) (#13)
by tkatchev on Sun Mar 31st, 2002 at 12:50:52 AM PST
Cristall is very much privately owned.


--
Peace and much love...

really? Since when? [n/t] (none / 0) (#14)
by Anonymous Reader on Sun Mar 31st, 2002 at 02:48:04 AM PST



See here. (none / 0) (#15)
by tkatchev on Sun Mar 31st, 2002 at 04:05:20 AM PST
See here.

Note the part that says "OAO Moscow factory 'Cristall'". Not only is the factory privately-owned, it is also publically-traded.

See this link and this link, for example.

P.S. There was a scandal recently where structures connected with the government tried to take command of the control packet of the company using shady means; this hardly constitutes a "government monopoly", though. Theoretically, you could buy the company if you wanted to.


--
Peace and much love...

 
Is this a trick question? (none / 0) (#12)
by tkatchev on Sun Mar 31st, 2002 at 12:45:54 AM PST
Will I be arrested for answering? :))

Definitely the Stalinist gothic; I'd pick MSU and either the Foreign Affairs Ministry or the hotel. There's no way you'll ever knock them down, though; maybe stain them a little bit. :)

For St. Petersburg, the Admiralty Spire. It would be a tremendous shock if you did something even the Nazis failed to do.


--
Peace and much love...

 

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest ® 2001, 2002, 2003 Adequacy.org. The Adequacy.org name, logo, symbol, and taglines "News for Grown-Ups", "Most Controversial Site on the Internet", "Linux Zealot", and "He just loves Open Source Software", and the RGB color value: D7D7D7 are trademarks of Adequacy.org. No part of this site may be republished or reproduced in whatever form without prior written permission by Adequacy.org and, if and when applicable, prior written permission by the contributing author(s), artist(s), or user(s). Any inquiries are directed to legal@adequacy.org.