Russian court fines Google $2 decillion dollars. (It might be rubles but it doesn’t really matter)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/

by Elkenson_Sevven

18 comments
  1. The amount of stupid that flows from Russia is really only rivaled by the stupid that flows from MAGA.

  2. More on this subject from other reputable sources:


    – DER AKTIONÄR (C): [Alphabet before the numbers: This is what matters afterwards](https://www.deraktionaer.de/artikel/aktien/alphabet-vor-den-zahlen-darauf-kommt-es-nachher-an–20369115.html)
    – Associated Press (A-): [Google ad change could affect millions of small businesses](https://apnews.com/article/google-ads-search-small-business-profile-09eb0cbd44c5b7e8b86f57560a6b3c0d)
    – ABC (B): [Court challenges to Google’s search supremacy an ‘existential threat’ — so how could it be split up?](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-30/google-could-be-split-up-as-search-monopoly-challenged/104473276)
    – Reuters (A): [Alphabet’s AI investments boost cloud sales, lifts maturing ad business](https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-parent-alphabet-beats-quarterly-revenue-estimates-2024-10-29/)


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  3. Here’s XKCD to give some perspective on a lawsuit for 2 Undecillion $U.S. which is only 3 more zeros than a Decillion (36 vs 33).

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

    A Trillion is 12 zeros and as XKCD noted, the estimated value of all sellable stuff is $77 trillion U.S.

    All goods ever produced by man would add up to an estimated $2,400 trillion U.S.if the entire Earth was swallowed by a giant, planet mining monster ship, and all valuable minerals extracted and sold at market value without crashing the price, it would pay off about $0.000000001 of the fine (and I rounded up)

    BUT! Google telling Russia to get bent is priceless.

  4. Next, Russia will hand over arrest warrants for all Google and Alphabet employees to Interpol.

  5. It was really supposed to be $20 (which probably equates to about a billion rubles these days), but the zero key stuck on the Underwood typewriter, and the secretary was too lazy to correct it.

  6. PUTIN: Gentlemen, it’s come to my attention
    That a breakaway Russian Republic
    Called Kreplachistan will be
    Transferring a nuclear warhead to
    The United Nations in a few days
    Here’s the plan. We get the warhead
    And we hold the world ransom…
    (dramatic pause)
    …FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

    NUMBER TWO
    Don’t you think we should ask for
    More than a million dollars? A
    Million dollars isn’t that much money
    These days

    PUTIN:
    All right then…
    (dramatic pause)
    …FIVE MILLION DOLLARS!

    NUMBER TWO
    Virtucon alone makes over nine billion
    Dollars a year

    PUTIN:
    (pleasantly surprised)
    Oh, really?
    (slightly irritated)

    $2 DECILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!

    #

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