[120445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Mon Dec 21 16:50:15 2009
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:48:25 -0500
From: Ken Chase <math@sizone.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <FE74BE0E-41EA-419F-8FD0-CAE77AE6867F@ianai.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
CSR isnt $0 ROI. Unless they're doing it wrong.
Which they aren't. You're not paid by them and you're arguing FOR them.
Well played, Google.
/kc
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:28:10PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore's said:
>On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Corey Travioli wrote:
>
>>> Another one from the "Evil Doer"
>>> http://www.google.com/advertising/holiday2009/
>>> Wish the guys from Redmond and others copy this action too ...
>
>> So what they are saying is because we as individuals are too cheep
>> to give to charity they are giving in our stead to shame us. Yup, that is
>> evil.
>
>I know it's off-topic, but I'm impressed with the idea that a public corporation can spend 8 figures on something that has essentially $0 ROI and multiple people here can find bad things about it.
>
>I'm shocked someone didn't say "but that's only 0.0000$WHATEVER percent of their profit!".
>
>Google does many things which can be argued as evil, or not, but I would say this is very much not one of them.
>
>--
>TTFN,
>patrick
>
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