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Comment Re:You could remove vmware (Score 1) 82

Companies have two choices:

Remove VMware entirely and stop using it.

Or

Make sure you are using your perpetual seats to the letter of the agreement then let them audit you.

Whatever right they have to audit you doesn't go away if you stop using VMware entirely. Not sure how that would work though.

"We are here to audit your VMware servers"

"We don't have any"

"Prove it"

"Ummm..."

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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: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?

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