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motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 08, 2010 03:34 PM

...because it's being run by idiots.

Apparently, there is not yet a standard prefix for [10^27], in the way that "kilo" is "thousand" and "mega" is "million." That's how you know that a "kilobyte" is 1,000 bytes and a "megabyte" is 1,000,000 bytes. But so far only prefixes for units up to 10^24 ("yotta") have names, according to the International System of Units (SI). Here are the established prefixes.

Now comes a Facebook page (with more than 37,000 fans and counting), and an online petition to get "hella," a hip, Northern California slang term that means "a whole lot of" as a standard prefix for 10^27.

Rapalus

Rapalus

Amherst, MA
June 2009

MAR 08, 2010 03:36 PM

The only hella I ever want to hear/see is the band.

Cate

Cate

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

MAR 08, 2010 03:39 PM

I think that's awesome. I'm a fan.biggrin

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

MAR 08, 2010 05:04 PM

motorfirebox said:
...because it's being run by idiots.

Apparently, there is not yet a standard prefix for [10^27], in the way that "kilo" is "thousand" and "mega" is "million." That's how you know that a "kilobyte" is 1,000 bytes and a "megabyte" is 1,000,000 bytes. But so far only prefixes for units up to 10^24 ("yotta") have names, according to the International System of Units (SI). Here are the established prefixes.

Now comes a Facebook page (with more than 37,000 fans and counting), and an online petition to get "hella," a hip, Northern California slang term that means "a whole lot of" as a standard prefix for 10^27.



I don't think a group of people who want to give a name to a system of units can be considered "idiots" by any stretch of the imagination.

BoxOfficePoison

BoxOfficePoison

Portland, OR
June 2003

MAR 08, 2010 06:49 PM

I will never buy a computer with a hellabyte of memory as long as I live.

Worst part of having a brother from Northern California, every other word out of his mouth is hella.

maleficus

maleficus

Lincoln, NE
March 2010

MAR 09, 2010 10:18 AM

There are certainly more valid reasons to be worried about the future. This story does sound like it should have been a scene in Idiocracy though.

semiretiredpunk

semiretiredpunk

USA
March 2007

MAR 09, 2010 11:01 AM

Idiocracy might be more like an official resolution declaring that numbers that big are "meaningless" and "stupid," and that from here on out similar quantities should be referred to as "a lot."

Dryad

Dryad

Asheville, NC
July 2008

MAR 09, 2010 11:26 AM


Now comes a Facebook page (with more than 37,000 fans and counting), and an online petition to get "hella," a hip, Northern California slang term that means "a whole lot of" as a standard prefix for 10^27.



OK, here are my issues.
"hip" is not the right word here.
Also, having been born in Northern CA and living 24 years of my life there, I don't think I ever once said hella, because it is stupid.
Hella stupid.

But hellabyte is kinda fun to say.
Hella fun to say.

Cate

Cate

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

MAR 09, 2010 11:36 AM

People gets so firey when talking about hella. I've lived in No. Cal my whole life, I say it all the time. But why transplants get so butt sore about it, I'm not sure why. It's not nearly as bad as ain't. "Hell of" it's like a new slang.kiss

hella cool.

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

I'm lost
August 2004

MAR 09, 2010 11:45 AM

Hella crybabies abound.

AlienHeep

AlienHeep

I'm lost
August 2008

MAR 09, 2010 11:50 AM

I mentioned this somewhere recently.. ah.. here

maleficus

maleficus

Lincoln, NE
March 2010

MAR 09, 2010 01:07 PM

semiretiredpunk said:
Idiocracy might be more like an official resolution declaring that numbers that big are "meaningless" and "stupid," and that from here on out similar quantities should be referred to as "a lot."



Haha true enough

"You sound like a fag or somethin', usin' all those numbers and stuff"

Cate said:
People gets so firey when talking about hella. I've lived in No. Cal my whole life, I say it all the time. But why transplants get so butt sore about it, I'm not sure why. It's not nearly as bad as ain't. "Hell of" it's like a new slang.kiss

hella cool.



Even worse is people who use the word "literally" to describe not so literal situations. To be honest, I have no problem with "hella" or "ain't". As long as the message gets across.

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

I'm lost
August 2004

MAR 09, 2010 01:22 PM

Hella crybabies abound. Literally.

maleficus

maleficus

Lincoln, NE
March 2010

MAR 09, 2010 01:30 PM

Oh, you!

BoozeUzi

BoozeUzi

Portland, OR
November 2007

MAR 09, 2010 01:54 PM

The mass of stupid wins in the long run, go evolution.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 09, 2010 09:18 PM

People who say "hella" are wrong and I have facts to prove it.

meatpieboy

meatpieboy

Korea, D.P.R.
June 2004

MAR 09, 2010 09:25 PM

A hellabyte would be yottacool.

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

I'm lost
August 2004

MAR 09, 2010 09:36 PM

magpieboy said:
A hellabyte would be yottacool.



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DevilsReject

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH
February 2007

MAR 09, 2010 09:49 PM

i suggest that one thousand hellabytes should be a holyfuckabyte. (10^28)

maleficus

maleficus

Lincoln, NE
March 2010

MAR 09, 2010 09:51 PM

motorfirebox said:
People who say "hella" are wrong and I have facts to prove it.



Prove it, Mr. Factman!

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

MAR 09, 2010 10:30 PM

motorfirebox said:
People who say "hella" are wrong and I have facts to prove it.



Oh, shut it.

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

MAR 09, 2010 11:03 PM

ROFLYOTTAMAO.

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

MAR 10, 2010 03:49 AM

motorfirebox said:
People who say "hella" are wrong and I have facts to prove it.



That's hella persuasive. You must have a helluva argument.

IDGAS

IDGAS

Portland, ME
March 2004

MAR 10, 2010 06:01 AM

For 10^30 how about - shitload?

Clio

Clio

SUICIDEGIRL

Netherlands

MAR 10, 2010 06:52 AM

FAN!

Hella fools get hella mad when I say hella hella hahaha

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