Russia says $20 decillion fine against Google is ‘symbolic
Russia says $20 decillion fine against Google is ‘symbolic
www.theguardian.com
Russia says $20 decillion fine against Google is ‘symbolic’
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Ah, I'm out of touch. When I saw the amount, I just assumed that was indicative of how far the ruble has fallen.
Thus, symbolic of how much they would need to charge to mean anything in USD.
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I mean... it would have to be?
Is there even that much money in the global economy?
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Not even close, by many orders of magnitude.
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By like 20 orders of magnitude or something
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Did rough math elsewhere, you would need around a million piles of cash each the size of planet earth to come close
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No.
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I mean it's as ridiculous as 3 life sentences 🤷♂️😂
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That actually has a function. First is as a life sentence usually isn't actually until you die, but you sit x years (usually 20-30) and then can apply for parole and might get it. Multiple sentences can be set to run one after the other, increasing that time - though usually in that case you just get "life without parole".
Another is if you have committed multiple crimes. Even if later they overturn one of them because of new evidence etc, you still have the others left keeping you in prison, instead of having to bring it back to court to figure out if that part was or wasn't enough to give you a life sentence instead of a shorter one.
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What a stupid move, why not just use a googleplex?
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Twenty gigajillion.
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My $20 googol fine against Russia is more symbolic considering that's where Google got the name from.