USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Dude, couldn't you find anything inteligent to say; out of ideas?

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Whatever Bubba, I just pointed out that when you are out of arguments you're stooping down to personal attacks.

As I said, I am rather neutral on this issue. I wouldn't mind if there was a ban on firearms, although I would have to give up my handgun and my shotgun. The thing is, how do you take away guns from the low-abiding citizens who do not want the ban? And most people in this country DO NOT want such a ban.

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

I think you could describe this whole argument as the personal freedom vs. a need for a safe society.
For instance, you could ban alcohol and make the society safer, but many (not all) societies prefer to take the route of personal freedom in this matter. They do that despite knowing that some people will get into fights, accidents, become alcoholics or even die. Some other cultures have baned alcohol, making live safer, but less free.

Same way, you can ban firearms and make your society safer, but less free. The choice belongs to us.

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Well good. This way you can decide about the laws in your own country and we'll take care of ours.

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Check it out: "List of countries by suicide rate" from Wikipedia.

1. Lithuania
2. Belarus
3. Russia
(...)
12. Belgum
13. Finland
(...)
19. france
20. Austria
...
22. Swtzerland
...
29. denmark
30. Germany
...
45. USA
...
60. GB
...

The buttom of the list:
95. Honduras
95. Jordan
95. St. Kitts and Nevis

wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Interesting, isn't? All poor countrys on the buttom. Makes you think, ha?
Also all the Carrabean countrys are on the buttom of the list...
Jamaica #93: No problem, mon! LOL

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Bubba, that comes from a website called "Gun Control Network" lol
Not exactly unbiased, wouldn't you say?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

Wikipedia's data is totally different.


Yah mon!

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Bubba, why are you so worried about my country? You take care of yours, I take care of mine. You don't like our system, do not visit, that's all. Thanks for the concern, anyways!

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Boy, all that anger, Bubba... I hope you don't own a gun... LOL Like I said, fire arms are NOT for everyone i.e. Bubba seems to have some anger issues hehe

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Here is the list again. Obviously the right to own a gun has very little to do with the suicide rate:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

You know what's funny? It looks like the worst factor in the suicide rates is... speaking Russian!
6 out of the top 10 countries have Russian as one of their official languages:

1. Lithuania
2. Belarus
3. Russia
4. Kazakhstan
8. Latvia
10. Ukraine

lolrof

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]

Oh yeah, it is true; it's easier to shoot yourself in a head rather then let's say jump off a bridge, but according to the list above - there are more suicides per capita in "non-gun" countries then in the US.

I have a feeling that his motivation to be so vigilant in this subject may have been different then just a conviction to the cause of a gun-free society.

USA, Canada / Gas prices in America [127]

Can someone explain to me how come the prices of gas have so little to do with the prises of oil per barrel? Last year the oil was $75/barrel and the gas cost $3.50/g. Now the oil is $100/barrel and the gas is $3.00... It makes no sense! Unless, of course, the oil companies can manipulate the prices the way they feel fit at any moment...?

History / Potoccy Magnate Family in Politics and History [23]

Jan Potocki (1761-1815) wrote one of my favorate books "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" (Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript, The Saragossa Manuscript). You can buy it in English on Amazon.com.

In 1965 they made an art film based on the book "The Saragossa Manuscript", which later had become a favorite of Jerry Garcia, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. All three together bought the rights to the movie and restored it. I heard that Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) built a movie theatre in his house because he loved to watch "Saragossa" so much

The Saragossa Manuscript

youtu.be/Swi2cN0GACI

History / Potoccy Magnate Family in Politics and History [23]

Plk, I believe they're talking about the title of a "count" and you are quoting wikipedia about the "patent of a general". Apples and oranges.

News / Alchemy Polish vodka commercial - "Polaks innovations" [48]

Grzeg, which Polish Vodka is a world-wide popular brand? None! Why is that? I don't think their Vodka is so bad, they just don't know how to sell it :)

USA, Canada / 2008 U.S. Presidential Election according to Polish and foreign people [90]

Well first of all Lesser lives in Gdansk, Poland, so that would be a bit difficult :)

USA, Canada / 2008 U.S. Presidential Election according to Polish and foreign people [90]

My prediction about the Super Tuesday turned out to be pretty accurate:


In fact McCain won with the Republicans and Democrats had a tie between Obama and Clinton. Obama is in a better position now, because more States that are still on the ballet lean towards Obama then Clinton.

The big news is now that Senator Clinton had to donate $5 million of her own money to the campaign and her staff decided to work the next month for free. That can only mean that her campaign is in big financial troubles!

USA, Canada / 2008 U.S. Presidential Election according to Polish and foreign people [90]

Mitt Romney had backed out? Holy crap! You're right! So the former 'underdog' Huckabee is in a two-man race now. Wow. Go Mr. Baptist Minister go!

The biggest difference between Huckabee and any other candidate are taxes - Huckabee is proposing abolishing IRS and federal taxes and implementing a flat sales tax instead.

Mike Huckabee - What is the "Fair Tax?"

Life / Cigarette Smoking in Poland [146]

You have to be such an idiot to smoke now, after all we know about what kind of a poison smoking is! If you're a smoker, you are an idiot, a moron, a f-up, a dumb ass, a tard, a turd lol.

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]


I checked it out on Wikipedia, here is the list:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_by_gun_ownership

United States 90
Yemen 61
Finland 55
Switzerland 46
Iraq 39
Serbia 37.5
France 32
Canada 31.5
Sweden 31.5
Austria 31
Germany 30

Norway is not on the list at all!

News / Storyville: The Polish Ambulance Murders (BBC4) [43]

Can someone please explain to me really fast what is the story about or give me some links to read about it? Were there really 50,000 people murdered? Isn't that impossible, that would be the biggest mass murder in the history, wouldn't it? Is there a link somewhere with a video I could download in the USA since the BBC one does not work here?

News / Storyville: The Polish Ambulance Murders (BBC4) [43]


If we're talking about a longer period of time, such us 10 years, and a bigger city like Lodz, with many ambulances, you could quite easely calculate how many people were murdered by these two ambulances using simple statistics.

All you need to know is how many ambulances there were in the city of Lodz within these 10 years, how many patients were transported during that time, how many of them had died during the transport. That would give you your average death rate in a Lodz ambulance. If there is a difference between that number and the number of deaths in our "suspect" ambulance, we can calculate the standard deviation, which is a square root of variance, or basically probability that this one ambulance's death rate is higher then average.

For example, you could say that an average death rate for a Lodz ambulance is, let's say, 8%, and the death rate of our "suspect" ambulance is (just an example!) 24% with a standard deviation of +-2.6%. Then you could say, that the chance of the "suspect" ambulance having so much higher death rate simple by "bad luck", not a homicide is 1 in 160, or 0.6%. That gives you the chances that a homicide had occurred is 99.4% and you have your number of murders +-2.6%.

Love / For all the hot Polish guys out there [73]

Here I am Baby, come and get me!


Sizzling hot! lol

News / Poland in coming 5 years [48]

In five years the average income in Poland will quadruple, which will bring millions of foreign workers from poorer countries looking for work.
Our friend Grzeg will be spending all his time on the Ukrainian Forums complaining about the influx of foreign workers unto Poland. He will use "NoImmigration" as a forum name.

"Our" PF Noimmigration will leave GB to find a job as a sewer line clener in Poland, but ironically this move will actually make him very happy and proud. He'll be very good at it and he'll finish his days in Poland, and they'll sing songs about him: "the best sewer cleaner ever".

News / Poland in coming 5 years [48]


There is this one thing about the alcoholics - they’re not quitters, that's for sure.

History / Polish-German history book for Schools [28]


That is a great idea. And Europe needs it desperately, judging by what I read on these forums. Maybe people in the former Yugoslavia should take the same approach as well, before they start a new war, this time over severity of Kosovo.

It's about time we start learning that there are people just like us on the other side of that "century old conflict".

Today's World is full of "century old conflicts" and it's time for us to change them to "former conflicts from centuries before". There are people on all sides of borders, and they are only of one race: the Human Race.

USA, Canada / 2008 U.S. Presidential Election according to Polish and foreign people [90]

There is some serious trouble brewing for the Democratic Party during these elections. The race between Obama and Clinton is running so close, that this time around the vote of so called "Supper Delegates" may make a difference and this may cause a big controversy. It is not known exactly who those "Super Delegates" are, how do they count their votes, and do they vote their own will or the will of the voters. This potentially could become a huge embarrassment for the Democratic Party, right on the doorstep of their big success - recapturing the Presidency of the U.S. If the race ends really close and the votes of so called “Super Delegates” will make the final difference, the Democratic Party will have a lot of explaining to do to its constituents.

USA, Canada / The 2nd Amendment (USA), the right to own guns [261]


Amen, that is it.

Life / Can you have guns in Poland? [25]

What about hunting? What do you do when there is more deer than the land can support? Do you let them starve in the winter? What if there is to many rabbit, or fox etc? I think (not sure) there was some hunting even in the communist times, or am I mistaken?