They wrote this whole article and never got around to telling us exactly what Canadian requirements it doesn't meet. This is why people only read the headlines.
The decision to pull funding for Canadian scientists to attend critical Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conferences
It seems likely that other commenters didn't read past the headline. It's about the government suddenly deciding to stop covering travel costs for people participating in IPCC meetings. It should not be too surprising that the Green Party might object to that. But they don't seem to have any more information about it than is found in the various news stories that are going around, which as far as I can tell don't tell us how or why the decision was made. There must be more to the story than what we're told so far.
That's technically within your legal rights I guess, just like (depending what the fine print says) it's within their rights to throttle all your traffic one way or another to a low speed including the stuff you actually need to go faster. The places that always have low speeds for everyone are like that because they're designed to cater to people who don't give a shit about what their fair share might be and just want to max out their connection. Those services are fine for torrenting, useless for everything else. Windscribe isn't one of those but it could become one if enough of its users think like you and insist on it.
Hopefully they'll set a soft 2TB limit or something before they do that, though.
Them calling it "unlimited" when there's a limit is wrong, but so is using all of the available upload bandwidth 100% of the time on a cheap home VPN service when you consider the current market prices for data transfer. Mine's limited to 2Mbps. Seems fair for $7/month or whatever it is.
Edit: Oh right it was 2Mbps. I spent 20 minutes surveying datacentre prices around the world to come up with that number, but bandwidth prices vary widely and might've changed by now.
Aside from the more direct damage that would be done by denying funding to research for "transgenic" mice, corporations paying lip service to DEI ideals less often, and people no longer doing ritualistic "land acknowledgement" statements — the larger effect will be the same as we've seen with Trump: The bigots will be emboldened. The racists will believe they now have license to be as racist as they can be, loudly and in public. The noise level will increase, the people will fight each other for stupid reasons that are irrelevant to the people in power, and things will generally get worse.
Their priorities seem to be more defence spending, more immigration, and more oil pipelines. Not quite the bold departure from recent history I'd have expected to justify choosing that name and with it the risk of being compared to the better-known Futurists of the past.
Since dslreports shut down and Geist decided to devote his blog to defending Israel instead of covering this stuff, I have no idea any more how to keep track of what's going on at the CRTC with respect to all this bullshit mismanagement of the once-great TPIA system. Looks like I didn't miss much and it's still broken in the same way it has been for ten years.
Won't play due to "VPN/proxy detected" — first time I've seen that on youtube. Oh well, guess I'll have to turn to piracy and watch the whole session later. Suzuka is the best.
There was a sudden unexplained jump in the number of simplified Chinese users counted in the previous survey, few of whom run linux apparently. It was probably some kind of error because their number has now gone back down. People expected it because that's not the first time it happened.
You can tell I'm not very good at thinking like Danielle Smith because I called it the "fossil fuel industry." In fact I am known to hold extremist views, such as that we should stop using oil and gas.
Garbage poll, including people who don't even live in Alberta. "The Prairies" sure. What do they know about oil and gas in Manitoba? Ideally you'd want to poll only people with at least 5 years experience in the fossil fuels industry.
Clicking the link got me no closer to finding out what she's supposed to have done to anger the idiots. I had to go to some random crazy-right substack to find out: "misleading reporting that tied an unrelated arson attempt to Freedom Convoy protests in 2022."
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They wrote this whole article and never got around to telling us exactly what Canadian requirements it doesn't meet. This is why people only read the headlines.