Comment Re: Tariffs = Boycott (Score 1) 81
I'm still a bit confused on how we can tariff Mex/Can. Didn't we sign NAFTA?
By declaring fentanyl an "emergency", Trump can override USMCA (nee NAFTA) by executive order.
Comment Re:VMWare is dead (Score 2) 76
VMWare in comparison costs $50/CPU Core/year for vSphere standard, from what I can find. It has a minimum of 16 cores per CPU socket, so $800/year per CPU.
Try $150 per core for the enterprise version.
Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 175
I'm in Canada, I see the fee for internet and the tax (GST) and a total.
Why are taxes not required to be included in the advertised price, as in other civilised countries?
When GST was originally implemented at 7% in 1991, it replaced a 13.5% tax previously charged directly to manufacturers. The government of the day wanted to emphasis that the change would be revenue neutral by showing the new untaxed price and the GST separately. It was a rather interesting time in Canadian politics. The party that introduced it was literally wiped out in the next election. And yet, we still have the tax. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Do they do this for higher taxed items like liquor and gasoline?
Gas is advertised and pumped tax-in (so $100 on the pump is $100 on the Visa), but the HST is still shown on the receipt. I don't know about alcohol sales, but restaurant menus are pre-tax prices, so presumably that would include any alcohol portion.
Comment Re:basic math iz hard! (Score 1) 28
Yeah, math IS hard. It was 172 to 177 years ago.
Comment Re:911 and redundency (Score 1) 89
911 is not out, anywhere. 911 centres in larger cities have been warning people that if they use Rogers for phone service they will not be able to reach 911, and all people are hearing is "Rogers broke 911".
Comment Re:The beatings will continue (Score 1) 89
And, no, you can't have a refund for the outage period.
The last time this happened they automatically issued credits, and they've already stated they will do so again.
Comment Re:Cyber-attack? (Score 1) 89
I'm in Canada on TekSavvy, so my service was unaffected.
I'm in Canada on TekSavvy and they do not use Rogers to deliver my service, so my service was unaffected.
FTFY
Teksavvy uses Rogers infrastructure as well, depending where you are.
Comment Re:Put the bastard in front of a firing squad! (Score 1) 23
I want to go back to only having to be worried about always getting fucked at the drive-through.
Doesn't that annoy the people waiting in line behind you?
Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 173
If the older generations weren't always so intent on hiding sex from the youngsters, that might not have been true.
Not hiding sex from the youngsters is what gets your name on a list and a cellmate named Bubba.
Comment Re:India and China have 4x Population of US (Score 1) 165
It's the unspoken elephant in the room. If you consider yourself an environmentalist, then raw population is the single biggest impact to the environment by a long way. India and China account for over a third of all humans. If they ceased to exist, pretty much every environmental issue would disappear overnight.
But who would build our cheap consumer crap? Run our call centers?
Comment Re:No women (Score 1) 165
Comment Re:Welcome to a Google feature from 8 years ago (Score 1) 34
What's new is the ability to set it org-wide defaults. As stated in the very first sentence of the summary.
Comment Re:Knee-jerk easy answer (Score 1) 210
They should encourage people to use the energy when it is available. Smart chargers for cars, industry that can take advantage of low prices.
By charging to dump excess power into the grid, you do exactly that.
Comment Re:Sucks for grandma (Score 1) 317
Carrying a balance doesn't increase your credit score. Available credit is not debt.
Available credit (more precisely, low credit utilization) does increase your credit score. That's why closing a card or credit line actually lowers your credit rating.
Comment Re:Sucks for grandma (Score 1) 317
Actually, the evil credit card company stopped the charges at $1400 as suspicious.
A low interest rate card is 12% ($35 annual fee). Assume a 2% minimum payment, that's just over 12 years. But if she bumps up the payment to 3% it drops to just over 8.
If she was in Quebec she'd have a 5% minimum and be done in 6 years.
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