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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
(www.theregister.com)
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Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose
I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.
Maybe the boss said, "Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post."
To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that's what's happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).
The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It's been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.
Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word "boffins" regularly.
I think it’s a CSS issue. Word wrapping won’t break apart the amount because it’s considered one “word.”
There are ways to address it though.
Source: I’m a full stack web application developer
Or do. It's not like people care if he breathes.
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And the fact that Google didn't pay them more money than exists in the world will be why Russia blocks Google's operations in the country and seizes every bit of property they can get their hands on that they say was even vaguely related to Google's operations. They didn't even bother with a realistic number, because in the end they don't really care who does or doesn't believe them.
They didn't start with that fine, it was just compounding interest
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.
And regardless, Russia can't block Google's operations in Russia because Google isn't operating in Russia since the war. Russia is trying to fire Google when Google quit 2 years ago.
According to my Google Currency Calculator app, that translates to approximately $14.38 USD.
Best I can do is tree-fiddy
they could just go for googol dollars
They're doubling it every week, so a googol is only ~4 years off.
Totally not a joke-country you guys.
Totally normal.
Meh. This is but a fraction of what the big media companies think the world owes them for piracy.
What’s that number in words? Sure. I could use Google, but they just got fined by Russia for $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 so can they really be trusted?
20 Decillion
2 x 10^34 for those people who like to use numbers to represent numbers in a sane way.
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it's 20 decillion.
Being fined by Russia is actually a positive stamp of approval in my book!
To everyone saying "this isn't possible for Google to pay" really need to take a step back and realize that there's always a way.
Given the amount of money we're talking, it would only take a tiny fraction of that money for Google to deliver a series of small asteroids directly to Russia. Depending on the asteroid, and the conversion rates, Russia might consider the debt paid after a single delivery.
asteroid in leui of cash
Maybe they meant rubles. I think I may find that value in my couch.
All made up, just like the reason for invading Ukraine
It's an actual court doing this.. Lol.
Is it, though?
Well, a russian one. So not really but ehhhh
So, they do control whatever assets Google had within Russia - article said a closed up office, and 200 remaining employees laid off, to get them entirely out of the country
If they do attempt to look for more assets to seize, they’ll pretty quickly run up against any other country saying “were their sanctions at the time?”
I was going to say Russia must love humiliating themselves but I guess this is painfully obvious the past 2 years
Oh wow, it was that easy all the time to fix a country's economy? Why did no one think of that before?
They know this is impossible - even with their worthless currency. I guess they will soon provide their own services or they will revoke internet access from their citizens.
It is not only more Rubles than currently exists, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂
I guess they will soon provide their own services
Is Yandex not state run? It does everything, the way Musk wants Xitter to, and then some.
According to the Article:
Google in Russia has been inactive since 2022 after the search giant effectively pulled out of the country following Putin's special military operation.
What you don't need Google to access internet
Yes, but users with basic knowledge don't even get the difference between a web browser and a search engine. Shutting down Google seems like a perfect "simple" explanation for a general digital lockdown.
Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow
Well to be fair, I do think it's plausible that one day Google will indeed control all the money in the world.
Why does the article keep referring to Google as "The Chocolate Factory?"
The Register has been referring to Google as The Chocolate Factory for almost 10 years. As to why, probably because of google’s confectionary named Android releases, which they stopped at Android 10
https://xiaomiui.net/sweet-names-of-android-you-may-want-to-eat-it-18036/
Maybe because their company produces pure shit?
virtucon alone is worth at least $20 decillion
RT broke a bunch of YouTube rules and should have been banned too.
April 1st came early
And they only stopped writing zeros only because there was no more space on their paper form.
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