News / Poland's young voters turning to the right - DW news [105]

The modern Federal Republic of Germany isn't responsible for crimes committed by the German Reich. There's no legal continuity.

Law / How to exchange almost expired USA driving license for Polish license? [16]


No, you need to legalise your stay. A legal stay is proven only by a residence permit or certificate.

Having said that, it's strange they let you take the exam without providing the certificate. Anyway, you should appeal in the first instance to the manager responsible for issuing driving licences. When that fails, appeal onwards to the director of the city department responsible, and from there, to the courts.

News / Poland's young voters turning to the right - DW news [105]


You wouldn't believe it from the fantasies online of Polish "patriots" abroad, though.

News / CHERNOBYL...threat to Poland? [29]


My pleasure.

Coal kills between 24-33 people for every Terawatt hour of energy produced depending . Nuclear has killed 0.07.

99% of all deaths relating to power production are the result of air pollution.

Life / Indian community in Poland [43]

Sure, my pleasure. What you need to do is to look for fellow Indians who will give you a personal referral into the companies they work for. There are quite a lot of Facebook groups, so join them and get them to send your CV personally to people in HR.

Once you move here, you're also eligible for family reunification, so you can take your family too.

Study / What do Poles think of a foreign person who tries to learn Polish [47]

Like listening to the Polonia speak in many cases. Anna Anders in particular makes me cringe whenever she speaks in Polish, because it's just non-stop mistakes and horrible word choices with terrible transference errors from English.

In comparison, Anne Applebaum speaks Polish wonderfully.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Respect is telling the full story, which is that the actions of a few led directly to the death of 300 Poles. Was it worth it? Probably not.


Just like Korwin's 0.5% in the last Rzepa poll!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Maybe not my generation, but I'm deeply worried about the next one.

Then again, look how Yugoslavia fell apart in the space of 5 years. I even found documents from the CIA in 1990 that said that they didn't expect full on war to break out, and that's what really scares me.

Life / Poles against gay marriages. Really? [120]


It's definitely changing, even in smaller towns.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Indeed. WW2 is such a perfect reason why we should be doing everything in our power to make sure that it never happens again.

All this obsessing over things like executing Germans in WW2 does nothing but keep tensions on the surface.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Nothing much to commemorate, as 300 Poles were executed in reprisal.

More importantly, glorifying such occasions results in people thinking that it's acceptable to execute political enemies.

Life / Poles against gay marriages. Really? [120]

If anything, I suspect they're much more willing to express their liberal preferences.

Classifieds / Fabricator sought for 1:1 scale mockup for MSPO Defence Exhibition. [14]


Any competent lawyer will tell you exactly what I've told you. In particular, a good NDA in Poland will avoid explicit penalties to avoid the defence of the penalty not being proportional to the actual loss. However, you also need to pay attention to the length of the NDA, as this can also be challenged.


Indeed. Take my advice and don't draw up an NDA based on Polish law if you value your hard work.

Classifieds / Fabricator sought for 1:1 scale mockup for MSPO Defence Exhibition. [14]


You might want to take it into account before soliciting responses on PF rather than on more professional classified services.

In particular, you should pay attention to the fact that courts tend to rule against excessive penalties in NDAs, which results in the clause being nullified. If you want to conclude an NDA with a small local business, then it's unlikely that you'll be able to enforce much, if anything through the courts, especially as a foreigner trying to claim against a Polish owned business.

As for my knowledge, let's just say I'd feel pretty secure breaking the NDA if I was a small business owner in Poland, particularly if it was to the benefit of the Republic of Poland against a foreign citizen.

Classifieds / Fabricator sought for 1:1 scale mockup for MSPO Defence Exhibition. [14]


Most of which are worthless in Poland and aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Life / Poles against gay marriages. Really? [120]


Seen much of that in Poland, have you?

Life / Poles against gay marriages. Really? [120]


And fourth, not a single word you've written has anything to do with the topic.


It's certainly going that way. All the fuss about it seems to have achieved nothing.

Genealogy / So My Dad Had His DNA Tested; And... [22]


Did someone just seriously try and use Infowars as a source? :D

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


That's my question. Where was he? He knows that there was a coverup/assassination, so why hasn't he provided his valuable information to the prosecutors investigating the crash?

Incidentally, impact with the tree was actually at 269km/h.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


No, but hitting the ground at an inverted angle at 250km/h tends to cause considerable damage to planes. Incidentally, it wasn't all broken into a million pieces, as can be seen from pictures taken at the crash site.


If you'd actually read the crash report, you'd know that the plane was trying to climb out of a ravine at the time of hitting the tree. It was barely above ground, and it took a matter of seconds for it to crash. One of the key causes of the crash was that the crew were unprepared for the specifics of the runway, especially the ravine before the touchdown zone.

Now, look at this crash, which also featured a TU-154M crashing on approach. aviation-accidents.net/vnukovo-airlines-tupolev-tu-154m-ra-85621-flight-vko2801/ - look, what a surprise! The plane is destroyed as a result of CFIT, just as what happened in Smolensk!

I'm amused that you know so much about the crash, yet you're too spineless to actually make a report to the public prosecutors about the knowledge that you have.

By the way, do tell us in which fantasy land a plane can hit something like this just a couple of metres above the ground - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzoza_smole%C5%84ska#/media/File:Tree_of_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash_(MAK_report).jpg - and survive? A tree trunk of 30-40cm diameter is going to do damage, especially at a speed of 250km/h.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Couldn't agree more. The fact that it was a sub-commission and so not subject to oversight by the Sejm was also an interesting trick to keep enquiring minds away.

Of course, our expert here knows that it was an assassination because the TV told him so.

Genealogy / So My Dad Had His DNA Tested; And... [22]


You're still not, no matter how much research you do into random Lithuanian farmers.

"Can be" is not proof of anything.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Aircraft wings however, aren't built like a tank. They're fragile things and easily damaged, especially when they smash into things at 250km/h.

PiS have had over 3 years in power and failed to present a single credible piece of evidence. Why? It would be enough to ask independent experts to go to Russia, make a copy of the black boxes and let them analyse it. If there was something wrong, an experienced inspector would find it immediately.

Ask yourself something: if it seriously was an assassination, wouldn't PiS throw absolutely everything they could at the investigation? Wouldn't they get the best experts in to show that something was wrong? Of course, experts won't put their reputations on the line for political lies, which is why they filled an accident sub-commission with unqualified people.

News / Community action in Poland [7]

Things are definitely changing. I've noticed that more and more informal groups are starting up. I believe it was similar in the PRL - when people discovered in the 70's that they could just start their own groups outside of the "structures", the communists got very upset and worried, even if they existed solely to pick up trash. They couldn't control the groups, yet even by their standards, there was no way to lock up people for picking up rubbish.

PiS obviously hate such structures, because it goes against the idea of such things being decided in Warsaw.

UK, Ireland / British men don't really like women [137]


Good. I thoroughly encourage English patriotism.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Only a nationalist would believe in the fairy tale that China is just willing to build all this nice infrastructure to Poland in exchange for nothing but increased trade.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

Depends, older apartments can have furnaces too. Many are getting converted to gas, but there's still an issue of lack of funds to complete the job.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


It's a bit more complicated than that. Poles still perceive themselves as 'poor', and so despicable practices such as burning rubbish are still routine. There's no reason for it, but people do it because it's also a way to save money - you don't pay for garbage disposal services, so you save 120 Euro a year, and instead, you chuck it all into your furnace and get 'free' heating as well.

The problem is widespread among middle class suburbia.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


It's not significant at all. It's a regional talking shop, and Trump turning up was nothing more than the typical US way of encouraging anything that might damage things that they perceive as a threat. As for the Germans showing up, well, that pretty much turns TSI into yet another CEFTA-style situation.

Incidentally, the aim of TSI is so that they can discuss issues relevant to the CEE region. It's not intended to replace the EU, no matter how much PiS would like to think otherwise. Most participants see it as a valuable tool that will bring about further European integration, and they've decisively rejected any attempt by Poland to use it as a means of dominating regional politics.


China? I thought you were about Polish interests, not about selling out to China. You only have to look at how China has done business elsewhere to see that Chinese investment always comes at a high price. You might also want to consider how the Chinese threatened Poland recently...

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Rather A loves and worships B. B has been responsible for wrecking C and imposing a murderous ideology on it. C would be wise to consider whether or not he can actually trust A.