What better way to confirm our suspicions of “the poor”, “the underdeveloped”, “the savage”? What better opportunity to reaffirm our condition of “civilized” than to look at Haiti after the earthquake? Make no mistake, because according to the Associated Press, “looting” is what Haitians are doing. We, “the developed”, obviously know better, because when our houses are destroyed, food and water are scarce, and our families lie dead on the roads, we wait for someone to come, rebuild, and officially re-open the stores so we can go in and buy toothpaste to cover the smell of death.
So the lesson here is clear: the audacity of freedom, the gift of Haiti to the world, is the greatest offence a nation can ever commit, and those who dare to take their own path, will be despised, abused and ignored, as will be their children, and their children’s children.
Six or seven years ago, when I arrived for the first time in Canada, I was appalled by the shameless and abusive way in which other Mexicans would try to bend the Canadian refugee system in their favour. Most of the people I knew that were claiming refugee status weren’t actually facing persecution back in Mexico; their lives were not in danger either. Furthermore, many were working illegally in construction, as movers, as banquet hall waiters and other similar jobs while at the same time cashing their refugee status check. I particularly remember a pair of twins claiming their lives were in danger back in Mexico because they were homosexual, but every Wednesday night, like clockwork, they would meet their girlfriends to spend the night with them partying and drinking through their refugee compensation.
“Sooner or later” -I thought- “the Canadian government will have to do something about this”, and so they did… I just never imagined they would make me and my family and the families of all other thousands of hard-working Mexican immigrants, pay for the failure of the refugee system.
In the meanwhile, my family, who have happily spent their earnings in Canada for the past 5 summers and a couple of winters, will be coming at least $450 short and a lot more annoyed than ever before. But we are some of “those people” who can pay their way in, so congratulations Mr. Kenney! you have achieved your goal of keeping “the poor ones” out. After all, we wouldn’t want the Leamington workers to get distracted with family visits; that would probably add a few cents to the cost of our tomatoes and nobody would want to pay for that, right?
I hope my government in Mexico reacts at least as strongly as the Czech Republic’s, if anything, just to show some self respect. In the meanwhile, I encourage any Canadian reading this to share it with their MPs and MPPs (can’t wait to become a citizen). Who knows… maybe we can get the Queen to start paying my family five dollars a year in reparations.
First, you need to make sure you have kino installed:
$ sudo apt-get install kino
then, connect your camera with the firewire cable and make sure the iee1394 module is loaded. Doing:
$ lsmod | grep ieee1394
should give you:
ieee1394 108288 4 dv1394,raw1394,sbp2,ohci1394
Now make sure the device /dev/raw1394 has been created. Doing:
$ ls -all /dev/raw1394
should give you something like:
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 171, 0 2009-06-10 09:56 /dev/raw1394
Also, make sure /dev/raw1394 belongs to either the disk or video groups. You will notice in the output above that my /dev/raw1394 belongs to the disk group, so it’s ok, but if this is not the case for you, then you can fix it by doing:
$ sudo chown root.disk /dev/raw1394
Finally, add yourself to the disk or video groups (whichever group you added the device to):
$sudo useradd -G [group-name] [user-name]
Now Kino should be able to recognize the camera and you should be able to transfer your videos to your computer!
A long, long time ago in a country far, far away, I used to spend hours playing one of the first 3D first person shooter games that allowed me to do just about anything I wanted. It was so cool to be able to turn lights on and off, look at your own reflection in the mirrors (even if the reflection was carrying the wrong gun) and, yes of course, pee, if you felt like it. All of this was possible in the wonderful world of Duke Nukem 3D. So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered I could turn back the clock to my teenage years and enjoy, once again, the full agency of my virtual presence in post-apocalyptic Hollywood, thanks, of course, to the magic of Linux.
The code that will make this happen for you is located on the eDuke32 wiki page. eDuke32 is an open source port of the original engine and it works like a charm. This is how you make it work:
Download and extract the most recent source package. It should be named something like: eduke32_src_YYYYMMDD.zip, where YYYYMMDD is the release date.
It is also a good idea to download the most recent patch, which will be named eduke32_src_YYYYMMDD.diff, into the same directory where you extracted the source code.
To apply the patch, do:
$ patch -p3 < eduke32_src_YYYYMMDD.diff
from the directory where you extracted the source code.
France advocating to eliminate Haiti's debt is like JP Morgan advocating against bailouts. Great trick to clean a Google search though.about 1 month agofrom Power Twitter
