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An elegy for England
Sobre Margaret Thatcher
Rodrigo Sias
Brasil Econômico
Uma das figuras políticas mais importantes do século XX, Margaret Thatcher faleceu na semana passada. Hoje, data de seu funeral com honras militares, é dia de lembrar de Maggie. Tenaz, magnética, implacável.
Sempre escolhia a política de enfrentamento e nunca a política fácil da acomodação. “Se Jesus Cristo buscasse o consenso, o cristianismo não existiria”, disse uma vez.
Assumiu a liderança do país, quando este estava em plena decadência. Anos antes, o Reino Unido havia recorrido ao FMI para equilibrar seu deficitário balanço de pagamentos. A inflação de dois dígitos demolia o prestígio da outrora gloriosa libra esterlina e o país era refém de poderosos sindicatos, do estatismo e do baixo crescimento.
Suas idéias fortemente conservadoras logo chocaram-na com diversos grupos de interesse poderosos, resistentes à mudança.
Combateu o que chamava de “ditadura dos sindicatos”, flexibilizou leis trabalhistas, privatizou estatais, desregulamentou a economia, baixou impostos, desmontou programas sociais deficientes e cortou gastos públicos num ambiente de graves turbulências econômicas, como a crise do petróleo.
Sua determinação permitiu que enfrentasse os altos custos sociais das reformas -, como o elevado desemprego - e a impopularidade. E venceu.
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| Silenciosa manifestação durante o cortejo com o corpo de Thatcher. |
As reformas devolveram o dinamismo da economia britânica, cuja produtividade passou a crescer o dobro do que crescia na década anterior. A desregulamentação financeira recolocou a City londrina como proeminente centro financeiro mundial e fez a libra ressurgir.
A aliança umbilical com os EUA pôs o país no centro de decisões globais e, junto a Reagan, Thatcher ajudou a redesenhar o mapa geopolítico mundial pondo fim à Guerra Fria. Ainda bancou e venceu uma guerra contra a Argentina pelas Ilhas Falklands, quando todos queriam negociar.
Sua visão de longo prazo fez dela uma estadista. Era favorável ao livre comércio e à globalização no campo econômico, mas feita no âmbito do Estado Nacional. Nunca foi favorável à relativização da soberania britânica e à expansão da tecnocracia supranacional.
Por isso, apoiou com entusiasmo a criação do mercado comum europeu, mas achava inaceitável adotar a moeda comum e o parlamento europeu.
No seu último grande ato como figura pública, em 2002, lançou o livro “Statecraft”, no qual reiterava sua ferrenha oposição ao aprofundamento da integração britânica à União europeia.
Este, que talvez tenha sido seu principal acerto - a não adoção do euro - só viria se materializar agora, quase vinte anos depois, livrando o país da problemática gestão da UE.
Desde a década de 1980, a renda per capita britânica cresceu mais do que qualquer país da UE até a eclosão da crise financeira. Ironicamente, sua oposição ao euro foi a principal causa de sua renúncia, em 1990, por pressão de seu próprio partido, que ainda ficaria no poder por mais sete anos.
Mesmo após o retorno dos trabalhistas, seu legado continuou em voga. A “terceira via”, de Tony Blair, nada mais era do que a aceitação implícita de que o thatcherismo estava certo no fundamental.
A frase de David Cameron, atual Primeiro Ministro britânico sintetiza a importância histórica da “Dama de Ferro”: “A verdade sobre Thatcher é que ela não apenas liderou nosso país, mas também o salvou”.
Que descanse em paz...
Rodrigo Sias é economista pelo Instituto de Economia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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LI just hoped it were replaced by free software…
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UnB sucumbe ao Fabuloso ENEM. Que Deus salve o que sobrar dessa universidade de 2014 em diante...
http://g1.globo.com/distrito-federal/noticia/2013/04/unb-vai-usar-nota-do-enem-em-processo-seletivo-partir-de-2014.html www.cienciabrasil.blogspot.com
Ora2PG 11 : Faster Oracle to PostgreSQL Migrations
Paris, April 9th 2013
Dalibo is proud to announce the release of Ora2Pg 11.1. This major release adds support to multiprocessing so that you can now export data in parallel mode. Importing data from an Oracle database is now ten times faster. With this new feature, Ora2Pg performances are closer to the ones you'd get with any ETL.
Since 2001, Ora2Pg is the best solution to migrate data from Oracle to PostgreSQL and is used by thousands of companies around the world to switch from the most expensive proprietary RDBMS to the most advanced Open Source RDBMS!
Ora2pg 11.1 also brings important improvements :
- You can now generate XML transformation files for Kettle (see http://kettle.pentaho.com/).
- Faster scan of Oracle databases containing huge number of objects.
- Faster partition data export with direct import to tables partition.
- Bug fixes on RAW or LONG RAW data export.
- PL/SQL to PL/PGSQL code rewrite.
Gilles Darold, the project leader and main developer of Ora2Pg, explains: "The development of ora2pg is really fast because more and more companies are moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL. This new version brings speed improvements to migrate multi-terabyte databases faster. For most users, lowering the migration time is critical because it means less downtime during the switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL."
These performance enhancements were developed by Dalibo in collaboration with Photobox, Europe's largest online photo processing service and Bouygues Telecom, a major mobile network operator and ISP in France.
Dalibo would like to thank the developers who submitted patches and the users who reported bugs and feature requests, especially : Dominique Fourdrinoy, Ludovic Penet, Thomas Ogrisegg, Alex Delianis, Pierre-Marie Petit and mrojasaquino. Ora2Pg is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcomed. You just have to send your ideas, features requests, or patches using the GitHub tools at https://github.com/darold/ora2pg.
Useful Links:
- Website: http://ora2pg.darold.net/
- Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ora2pg/
- Development: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg
- Changelog: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog
About Ora2Pg :
Ora2Pg is an easy and reliable tool to migrate data from Oracle to PostgreSQL. It is developed since 2001 by Gilles Darold, also author of pgBadger, a PostgreSQL performance tool. Ora2Pg can export most of the Oracle objects (table, view, tablespace, sequence, indexes, trigger, grant, function, procedure, package, partition, data, blob and external table).
Ora2Pg works on any platform and is available under the GPL v3 licence.
Docs, Download & Support at http://ora2pg.darold.net/
About DALIBO :
DALIBO is the leading PostgreSQL company in France, providing support, trainings and consulting to its customers since 2005. The company contributes to the PostgreSQL community in various ways, including : code, articles, translations, free conferences and workshops
Check out DALIBO's open source projects at http://dalibo.github.com
A fraude foi a grande vencedora das eleições na Venezuela
Egypt Starves (and Egyptians Steal)
Egypt’s pound has fallen by 40% since last December, from 6 to the dollar to 8.25 to the dollar on the black market. The price of basic food items like beans and milk have risen by more than that, pricing all forms of protein out of the range of the half of Egyptians who live on less than $2 a day. And the worst is yet to come: according to the US embassy, the Muslim Brotherhood government has vastly inflated its estimates of this year’s wheat harvest in order to keep export orders down — because it doesn’t have the money to pay for them. Egypt reportedly got $5 billion in emergency loans from Libya and Qatar (although it is not clear how much of that can be spent), but that barely covers the government’s arrears to oil companies operating in the country. I published an update on Egypt’s economic free fall in Asia Times Online this morning.
Mohammed Morsi’s Islamist government is living hand to mouth, stiffing suppliers and exporters, and cadging emergency loans, but it hasn’t ordered a shipload of oil or wheat since January. When things get this bad, everyone who can get dollars out will. The ship is sinking, and the cry is, “Women and children last!”
Here’s an example.
Just after I filed the story, Al Ahram reported that the country’s cotton exports had dropped 40.6% between September-November of 2012 and the same period of 2011 (hat tip: Daniel Pipes). According to the Egyptian daily, the drop is due to much larger domestic purchases of cotton by local textile companies:
Egyptian textile companies bought 415.8 thousand metric quintals of the local cotton in the period September-November 2012, a whopping increase of 326 percent compared with the corresponding quarter a year before.
That makes no sense, because Egyptian textile exports also fell by a big margin.
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Goodbye to Blighty?
It’s revolting to watch the outpouring of morbid glee at the death of Baroness Thatcher from the British left–not from Occupy Wall Street fringe elements, but from trade union leaders and senior Labor MPs. London’s Daily Mail today reports:
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said: ‘Mrs Thatcher will be remembered by many for the destructive and divisive policies she reigned over which in the end, even in the Tory Party, proved to be her downfall. Her legacy involves the destruction of communities, the elevation of personal greed over social values and legitimising the exploitation of the weak by the strong.’
Labour shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont came under fire for ‘condoning’ an inflammatory tweet about the former Conservative prime minister. He was accused of being ‘extremely foolish’ when he described a university student’s political views as ‘spot-on’ following a reference to Lady Thatcher a ‘f***** witch’.
Dancing on the grave of one’s political opponents is unthinkable in American terms. In part this is because any American president bears the dignity of the office of head of state, while a British prime minister is a servant of the sovereign. But that does not explain the eruption of hatred against a dignified, intelligent, and principled woman who led her country longer than any 20th-century prime minister–almost as long as Franklin Roosevelt led the United States. This eruption of hatred is inexcusable. But it is not entirely inexplicable.
The victory of the West in the Cold War would have been impossible without her. The book to read is The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister, by her close adviser and friend John O’Sullivan (I reviewed it when it first appeared in 2007).
Baroness Thatcher was a great woman, one of the few political leaders to change a country’s direction for the better. During the 11 years of her ministry the compound annual growth rate of per capita real national income was 2.5%, compared to just 1.9% during the preceding 11 years of (mainly) Labour governments. She believed in free markets and unleashed a wave of creative destruction that reshaped much of England.
I spent two years in London as a graduate student in the mid-1970s, when the city had a characteristic stink: few had central heating and all the buildings reeked of mildew. Civil servants wore old shirts with frayed collars and smoked their cigarettes down to the stub. Billboards advertised “barley wine” as the drink with the most alcohol for the money. The docklands looked like a post-apocalyptic ruin. When I came back to London as an investment banker in the 1990s, it was a transformed city. The docklands had become prime real estate and the city overflowed with money. Taxi drivers speculated in the real estate market and immigrants from all over Europe flocked to London; there were French bus drivers, Spanish waiters, Portuguese hotel staff, and Polish carpenters. It was a pleasure to hear Jamaican cabdrivers inveigh against the lazy (overwhelmingly white) spongers living on the dole in the Midlands and the north of England, while good jobs went to foreigners.
Last month I stopped briefly in London for business, and found myself hoping that I never would return; it reminds me too much of what might become of us. It is the great capital city of a great nation where the British are entirely marginalized. At the top, Arab and Russian money has turned Knightsbridge and Belgravia and South Kensington into an impossibly priced theme park for absentee owners. At the bottom, what used to be the Cockney London–within earshot of the bells of the Bow Church–has become Little Bengal.
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Panasonic wants to expand the “affordable” lens range.
The guys over at DSLRmagazine (translation here) posted a report about the Panasonic event in Vienna.
Panasonic first showed some very interesting market analysis. The image on top shows the growing mirrorless system cameras market share. Asia is leading the innovation with over 40% of all system cameras being mirrorless. Europe follows with 20% and North America with 14% only. And Panasonic camera “owns” 17% of that mirrorless pie. And the strategy is also very clear with the GF and GX cameras goal to be to “Create New Demand” while the GH and G camera will aggress the DSLR market and focus on “Hybrid Photography”
And on that image above you see that it’s Panasonic goal to expand the “affordable priced lenses to lead additional purchases“. That could explain why it will take one more year until the amazing 42.5mm f/1.2 lens hits the market 
All images and full report via DSLRmagazine.
José Dirceu, amigo do ex-reitor Zé Geraldo (Zé do MST), quer desmoralizar o Supremo, e diz que fazer de Lula um réu enfureceria o PT e o povo brasileiro. Os fascistas de esquerda não param de ameaçar o Brasil. Da mesma forma que fascistas da UnB a transformaram em um esgoto moral, onde assédio institucional era a regra !
A CNB do B e discrição socialista
LAinda… dá para entender a mal diſfarçada raiva dos eſquerdiſtas contra os três últimos biſpos romano‐papiſtas de Roma: nada reage como um animal acuado.
Imaginem a seguinte situação: você está saindo da biblioteca de uma universidade federal quando, na saída, topa com alguns panfletinhos. Um deles lhe chama a atenção: letras garrafais, nas cores da bandeira do Brasil, destacam um folder. “Estado para que e para quem?”, eis a pergunta que intitula o panfleto. Você se interessa remotamente e, para não perder o costume, pega um dos materiais, abre e começa a ler. E você se depara com isto:
Os/as jovens devem ser entendidos/as também como sujeitos/as protagonistas da construção de uma sociedade de fato fraterna, justa e solidária. A parcela que mais sofre é a juventude, pois vive uma situação de desemprego, precarização do trabalho, educação precária, violência e extermínio, predominantemente a negra.
Entendemos que o maior responsável por essa situação que se encontra a juventude é o modelo desenvolvimentista implantado no Brasil, cujas bases encontram-se no modelo de produção e consumo capitalista-imperialista. Este modelo está baseado na acumulação do capital, especialmente pelos bancos e multinacionais, que aliados aos governos, promovem voraz ataque às riquezas e ao território, provocando injustiças socioambientais e o empobrecimento da juventude rural e urbana, em especial os jovens negros, mulheres e indígenas.Nada demais, até aí. Afinal, você está em uma universidade federal, terreno fértil para todo tipo de grupelhos socialistas – desde os mainstream, como as juventudes do PT e do PC do B, até os mais marginais (e risíveis), como ajuntamentos anarquistas ou trotskistas. A retórica revolucionária é facilmente reconhecível, uma vez que se manifesta através de palavras-chave bem batidas. Assim, meio que movido por uma curiosidade mórbida, você procura ver quem está divulgando aquele material.
E eis que você vê que, na verdade, não se trata de nenhum setor de juventude de partido de esquerda, muito menos nenhum grupo mal-acabado de socialistas de butique: quem promove o material é a Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB). O folder em questão é o material de divulgação da 5ª Semana Social Brasileira (SBB). Um modelo do panfleto pode ser encontrado aqui. O ranço marxista do material é explícito – comparando-o com algum artigo de opinião publicado em qualquer site de partido de esquerda brasileiro, do PT ao PCO, a semelhança é assustadora.
Em 24 de novembro de 2002, a Congregação para a Doutrina da Fé publicou a “Nota doutrinal sobre algumas questões relativas à participação e comportamento dos católicos na vida política”. Esse importante documento – cuja existência, ao que tudo indica, é totalmente ignorada pelos formuladores do material – assevera que
a consciência cristã bem formada não permite a ninguém favorecer, com o próprio voto, a actuação de um programa político ou de uma só lei, onde os conteúdos fundamentais da fé e da moral sejam subvertidos com a apresentação de propostas alternativas ou contrárias aos mesmos. Uma vez que a fé constitui como que uma unidade indivisível, não é lógico isolar um só dos seus conteúdos em prejuízo da totalidade da doutrina católica. Não basta o empenho político em favor de um aspecto isolado da doutrina social da Igreja para esgotar a responsabilidade pelo bem comum. Nem um católico pode pensar em delegar a outros o empenho que, como cristão, lhe vem do evangelho de Jesus Cristo de anunciar e realizar a verdade sobre o homem e o mundo.O objetivo desse material não é a defesa da doutrina social da Igreja – que, aliás, declara que o livre mercado (ou, no dizer do folder, o “modelo de produção e consumo capitalista-imperialista”) é “o instrumento mais eficaz para colocar os recursos e responder eficazmente as necessidades” –, mas de idéias que, explícita e implicitamente, possuem alicerce em doutrinas políticas formalmente condenadas pela Igreja. E o pior: seu foco é justamente a doutrinação ideológica dos jovens, travestindo de conscientização política o que poderia corretamente ser chamado de mutilação moral e intelectual.
“É uma caridade descobrir o lobo que se esconde entre as ovelhas, em qualquer parte onde encontramos.” Essas sábias palavras de São Francisco de Sales devem sempre pautar a atuação de todo cristão, sobretudo em um campo tão complexo e ardiloso como a política.
Mozilla: Unlike FB and Twitter Single Sign-in, Persona Protects User Privacy
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OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement
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OpenDaylight shines on open source software-defined networking
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FairSearch files EU antitrust complaint over Android
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HP unveils Atom-based cloud microserver
LDiggiŋ for ðe ARMs.
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What’s (Black-) Magic on the new Pocket Cinema Camera!
NAB 2013: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera unveiled from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
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Right now the new Pocket Cinema Camera can be preordered at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). But what’s so Magic with the new Blackmagic?
First of all, if you are a pure photographer stop here. The Pocket Cinema Camera is a video camera! But if your priority is shooting film than this little (and non expensive) camera may be for you! You can read all specs of the camera at Blackmagicdesign. What I like about the camera is that it has been (well) designed and developed with one specific goal in mind: Deliver the best video quality in the most pocketable package. It shoots 12 bit CinemaRAW DNG and has 2 Megapixels…exactly what you need for HD shooting and not a pixel more that gets “wasted” like on current hybrid photo/video cameras. The result is an amazing sharpness and 13 stop dynamic range:
The new Pocket Cinema Camera has the same sesnor tech as the bigger Blackmagic Cinema Camera. And the video below nicely shows you how much better the Blackmagic is when compared with the Canon 5DmarkIII:
Comparing the Cinema Camera & 5D Mk III from OneRiver Media on Vimeo.
Now you get that kind of quality for $995 and in a cool small sized camera. I think Blackmagic did an incredible good job and also added more value to the full Micro Four Thirds system that is more and more becoming the mainstream mirrorless system! Yes, that camera “wowed” me yesterday! Well done Blackmagic!
P.S.: You may also read the Pocket Cinem Camera review written by John Brawley and the hands-on at Leavethatcouch. Again, preorders at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
HP Launches Moonshot
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Blackmagic official press release for the Pocket Cinema MFT Camera! Coming on market in July.
Finally we have the official press release for the new Blackmagic MFT camera. UPDATE: Preorder are now available at BHphoto (Click here). There is also a hands-on at Engadget. The full dedicated page is up at Blackmagicdesign. A first review has been written by John Brawley.
Official Press Release:
Blackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
NAB 2013, Las Vegas, USA – April 8, 2013 – Blackmagic Design today announced Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, a beautifully designed, pocket sized digital cinema camera that includes powerful features such as Super 16mm sized 1080HD sensor, super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, built in SD card recorder for Apple ProRes, lossless compressed CinemaDNG RAW capture and active Micro Four Thirds lens mount, all in an attractive compact design for only US$995.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2013 booth at #SL218.
Since the original Blackmagic Cinema Camera was launched at NAB 2012, it has been celebrated by industry professionals for its amazing film look and accurate and cinematic color. The new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera has most of the features of its bigger brother, including its feature film look, but has been redesigned with a dramatically smaller size that is less than an inch thick and can be held easily in your hand.
This compact design allows the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera to be used in more situations where a larger camera would not be practical. It’s so small that it can be used in situations in the field where a larger camera could be dangerous. The camera’s film look even allows personal video to be shot with the style and creativity of a motion picture film!
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera features an industry standard Super 16 sensor size, so it’s perfect when using Super 16 cine lenses via MFT adapters, as the shooting experience is the same as using the same lens on a Super 16 film camera. The 13 stops of dynamic range look of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is almost identical to shooting on a professional Super 16 film camera. The Micro Four Thirds lenses offer a wide range of low cost lenses with amazing image quality, and they are compatible with mount adapters such as PL mounts for large lens and professional motion picture film rigs.
One of the most important features of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is its super wide dynamic range of 13 stops, allowing feature film quality images. A common mistake in the television industry is the assumption that more resolution means higher quality. Most cameras, even ones with higher than HD resolution, can produce”video” looking images that suffer from highlight and black clipping that limits details. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera’s wide dynamic range eliminates this problem and provides film quality with dramatically more detail retained in black and whites in the image. Once the shoot is complete, DaVinci Resolve Lite color correction software can be used to adjust images and take advantage of this extra range in the images.
To eliminate the damage that low bit depth and high compression video storage creates, the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera includes a easy to use SD card recorder that allows the full sensor dynamic range to be recorded in professional ProRes 422 (HQ) format, as well as 12 bit Log RAW lossless compressed CinemaDNG format. These files can be read by high end video software as they are all open standard. In addition to the regular CinemaDNG RAW format, Blackmagic Design will also be implementing a QuickTime wrapper for the open standard CinemaDNG and companion codec, allowing the camera to record in a format that allows RAW editing in popular editing software.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera has been designed as the perfect companion to editing software such as Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer. Unlike other cameras, which require the use of custom video file formats, the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera includes absolutely no custom video file formats, and every file type included is open standard.
The built in large LCD display makes focus easy, and allows playback of captured files. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera includes a built in microphone, as well as external jack based mic/line level balanced audio connections. When reviewing recorded clips, audio can be played through the built in speaker and routed through the headphone port or micro HDMI output. The HDMI output includes all camera data such as timecode, transport control, shutter angle, color temperature setting and ASA information overlaid in attractive anti aliased fonts.
“This is an extremely exciting camera and its been amazing to work on. Our original Blackmagic Cinema Camera was small, but this new model is so much smaller than the original, we almost cannot believe it features very similar image quality,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “We think customers are going to really enjoy this new model and use it both personally and professionally. It’s going to allow shooting in situations that could never have been achieved at this quality level previously. It’s also going to be the camera that thousands of new up and coming cinematographers use as their first camera for their independent films. It’s going to be exciting!”
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Key Features
- High resolution 1080HD Super 16mm sized sensor with superior handing of image detail.
- Super wide 13 stops of dynamic range allows capture of increased details for feature film look.
- Compatible with extremely high quality Micro Four Thirds lenses. Compatible with other mounts via common third party adapters such as PL mount and Super 16 cine lenses.
- Built in SD card allows long duration recording with easy to use media.
- Open file formats compatible with popular NLE software such as ProRes 422 (HQ) and lossless compressed CinemaDNG 12 bit RAW. No custom file formats.
- Features all standard connections, including mini jack mic/line audio in, micro HDMI output for monitoring with camera status graphic overlay, headphone mini jack, LANC remote control and standard DC 12 power connection.
- Built in LCD for camera settings via easy to use menus.
- Supports 1080HD resolution capture in 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97 and 30 fps.
- Compatible with DaVinci Resolve Lite color grading software.
Availability and Price
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is available in July for US$995 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide. UPDATE: Preorder are now available at BHphoto (Click here).
Source: Blackmagicdesign.
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Memo to Jew-Haters on Yom HaShoah: You Are Dying
A man walks into a Jewish restaurant and asks the boss: “How do you prepare your chickens?” “We tell them up front they’re not going to make it,” he replies. To those Italians who voted for Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Alliance, or Greeks who support the Golden Dawn movement, or Jobbik Party voters in Hungary, among others: Permit me to tell you up front that you are not going to make it, either. Your countries are dying because you no longer wish to live. One can “foresee a time when your land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when your language is entombed in books, and your laws and customs have lost their living power,” to paraphrase Franz Rosenzweig.
These political parties have returned old-fashioned Jew-hatred to the political mainstream. Southern Europe’s economic crisis and social dissolution, the new anti-Semites imagine, is the work of a global conspiracy of Jewish bankers run by the Rothschilds, the Illuminati, and the Freemasons. Beppe Grillo, the recipient of a fifth of the Italian vote in Italy’s February elections, says: “Hitler may have been sick, but the idea of eliminating the Jews was to eliminate their financial dictatorship.” A Jobbik candidate for the European Parliament wrote: “Anti-Semitism is not just our right, but it is the duty of every Hungarian homeland lover, and we must prepare for armed battle against the Jews.” A member of the Greek Parliament for the Golden Dawn read out extracts from the anti-Semitic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
May I ask you to consider — just for the sake of argument — an alternative explanation? Hypothetically speaking, is it possible that the Jews have nothing at all to do with your misery, but that you are destroying yourselves?
Consider the facts: by 2040, you will have about 60% more elderly dependents than you have now, and about half as many young workers. Your economies will collapse, along with your social safety net. The trajectories in the chart below well may understate the problem. In the United Nations’ low variant, Hungary’s total fertility rate stays above one child per female. Excluding the Roma (Gypsies), though, Hungary’s fertility rate has already fallen to a chillingly low 0.85:
Three European Countries: Elderly (60+) vs. Young (15-24) Population (2000 = 100)
Source: United Nations
You are dying because you wish to die; that is, because you do not wish to rear children. Only 10% of Hungarian men and 12% of Hungarian women are married by age thirty, which is to say that only a tenth of young Hungarians intend to have children. If you don’t have children, you will disappear, Jews or no Jews. Long before you disappear, your economies will collapse under the weight of dependent elderly.
That is enough to make anyone crazy. But there is an obstacle to self-diagnosis: if you have tried to visualize your own extinction, you will have failed. The mind revolts at the prospect of national extinction. We cannot imagine our death as individuals. Sigmund Freud observed: “It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death. … Whenever we attempt to do so we can perceive that we are in fact still present as spectators. In the unconscious every one of us is convinced of his own immortality.” Even less can we imagine that no one will speak our language, sing our songs, laugh at our jokes, nod at our history — that we will not only pass out of earthly existence, but out of all remembrance as well.
We cannot think of a world that has erased us from memory. We could not if we tried, because we require language in order to think, and we cannot think in an extinct language. Our minds are not a tabula rasa, taking the imprint of sense data as it strikes us at random. Perception begins with consciousness, and consciousness is rooted in identity. We hear and see things that have meaning for us. A world without us has no meaning for us, and we have no capacity to perceive it.
Because you Jew-haters cannot conceive of a world from which you have erased yourselves, it is impossible for you to form a rational judgment about your future, and almost as hard to form a rational judgment about your present, which points inexorably to the absence of a future. If you could form a rational judgment, you probably would emigrate, as have 250,000 to 500,000 young Hungarians over the past ten years. And if you cannot form rational judgments, you will make irrational judgments — for example, about a conspiracy of Jewish bankers. Es zol gor nisht helfen (Yiddish: It’s hopeless). That’s why the United States of America is here: we receive the refugees from people who want to live and therefore abandon dying cultures.
The question remains: why are we Jews the subject of your paranoid obsession? Why not a global Chinese conspiracy, for example? There are only 30,000 Jews left in Italy, for example, and fewer than 5,000 in Greece.
May I suggest an explanation? Your obsession is not with the Jews as such, but with your mortality and the imminent extinction of your culture.
You are obsessed with something that no man and no people is capable of imagining, for you will not be a spectator at your own funeral nor a witness to your own national extinction. You anti-Semites may or may not be Christians, but somewhere in the back of your minds you recall John 4:22: “Salvation is of the Jews.” Substitute the word “eternity” for “salvation,” and the origin of your obsession becomes clear. The peoples of the world first acquired the hope of eternal life from the Jews, and Christianity promised the Jews’ salvation to the Gentiles.
You have long since abandoned the promise of Christianity, as your refusal to have children shows. All that remains is your residual envy of the Jewish promise of eternity, death’s envy of life.
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