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delphiandomine   
7 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

It is TVP S.A. - in private hands.

That's quite normal in Poland - many companies that are owned 100% by the state are technically independent companies. It's just a different way of doing things - just like BBC Worldwide is a limited company that exists to raise money from BBC assets. TVP S.A. is very much under the control of the government.

From memory, Frence Télévisions is also S.A despite being 100% owned by the French state.

They have agreed the fees/charges for 2016. It is 22.70 pln a month.

That's the current television licence.

So in effect you are paying towards the profits of private companies and not the state.

TVP isn't a private company. It's a S.A. with 100% of the shares controlled by the government. In terms of structure, it just means that TVP can monetise their programming without having to set up a separate company to deal with it.
delphiandomine   
7 Dec 2015
Feedback / A special "for those living in Poland..." section. [33]

That's why I propose a nice section for those of us actually living in Poland. We won't have to read the vast majority of nonsense then, while we can discuss things in a fairly civilised manner. A lot of good posters (such as cms) are being driven away from this forum because of the constant nonsense about homosexuals, Muslims and others - and we want them to come back.

If the Mods banned the nasty, vicious, arrogant, know-all badmouthing Brit Bully loadmouths, perhaps the forum would be a far more civilised place.

Oh Polonius, you are such a character.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Feedback / A special "for those living in Poland..." section. [33]

I'm sure that the avid, Poland for the Poles posters, would agree.

They seem to be arguing and whining about it. Seems to me as if the old phrase "Anglia dla Anglików i Polaków" is very true :D

but It may be pointless as the Trolls will use VPNs.

Then they can be thrown out, as most of them are quite honest about not living here.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Wouldn't like to bet, to be honest.

In the first round of voting, the party that receives an absolute majority of votes automatically gets a quarter of the available seats. The remaining seats are allocated proportionally among the parties that received at least 5% of the vote.

If no party receives an absolute majority in the first round, a second round of voting occurs; only the parties that garnered at least 10% of the vote in the first round are allowed to participate in the second. Moreover, the candidates for each party can change in the period between voting rounds. (cropped)

france24/en/20151202-guide-french-regional-elections-socialists-republicains-national-front

Doesn't seem likely that it will be a crushing victory if both major parties in France (the Socialists and the Republicans) are running alongside the FN. Equally so, can't imagine either mainstream party will beat the FN now.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Feedback / A special "for those living in Poland..." section. [33]

Fact number 2. I suspect PF would be a far better place (and people would be encouraged to post) without the nonsense that you and the others that left Poland years ago post. A forum without you and the others would be a perfect place to discuss serious topics without your constant insults.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

I assume this is going to apply to uninhabited property as well?

No-one knows yet - but the two proposals are either a tax on the electricity bill or a tax applied to the tax return.

Wait til the childless people realise that the money has to come from somewhere.. somewhere like them..

Indeed. Wait until business owners get taxed more and wages fall as a result. Wait until VAT has to be raised to 24%. Wait until everyone starts crying and whining because PiS promised them lower taxes and more benefits!
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Law / Drinking in a parked car. What the Poland's law says? [24]

I suppose legislation 2a) would be deemed to put the kybosh on my dastardly scheme?

Hmm. Perhaps not, if you were in the car at the time. But even if you were outside, the worst they could do is get you on a noise complaint (which is almost certainly a warning to begin with) and drinking in public, which is only a small fine anyway.

If you are inside it, you are in charge of it.

No, not quite. Case law seems to suggest that it depends on whether there's real intent to use the vehicle. If you're unconscious on the back seat and the keys are quite clearly stashed away in a very difficult place to access, then it would probably constitute a valid defence. The tricky part would be organising the defence - so you'd need a good lawyer.

Not sure why Plod couldn't use common sense in this case - someone asleep in the back of their car with the keys nowhere near them/the ignition is clearly not a threat to anyone.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Feedback / A special "for those living in Poland..." section. [33]

I don't see why it shouldn't; there's a separate forum for Polonia, who by definition are not in Poland, so why not one for people who are in Poland?

Makes perfect sense in my view. A forum without Ironside, Wulkan, Johnny Reb and others could be very popular. Polonius would be allowed in, but he does at least make an effort to post links to news stories.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

If I were living in Poland I would be objecting to it, regardless of whether I could easily afford to pay it. It's the principle.

Indeed, hence why I'm taking part in protests against this rotten government that is punishing hard working, low earning families to pay for selective welfare measures.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Feedback / A special "for those living in Poland..." section. [33]

I think if Mods and Admin got their fingers outta their asses and stopped the racism, xenophobia, sexism then the forum would be a better place.

Of course, but if they're not willing to stop it, then it's a simple measure to make sure that those of us actually living in Poland can discuss things in peace without small children being bothersome.

The only problem is that it will reveal that many "patriotic" posters aren't actually living in Poland at all...
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

In other words, it should educate and raise the cultural level of the viewing public by providing more real culture, music, history, art, serious disucssion, etc. and less popculture crapola, more original Polish content and fewer licenced American sitcoms.

See, you're already admitting that they intend to control everything that's on TVP rather than letting it be run by an independent editorial board with a broad remit. And to fund that, they need to tax hard working, low earning Polish families in order to do so.

Let's be serious - TVP is not going to suddenly turn into some highbrow broadcaster that challenges the public on a daily basis. It's going to promote what the government wants to promote - which means it will always have an agenda.

I found these quotes by Gliński about public TV and culture - worth reading.

In many countries today, ethical and moral norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in culture and nation are being erased.

I don't read books by people who are betraying the Motherland.

The role of the government is not only to put honey into a cup, but sometimes to feed bitter medicine.

delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Feedback / A special "for those living in Poland..." section. [33]

I suggest that given the high amount of racism and insults found in posts by those not living in Poland, there should be a special section of PF that is only accessible to those with an IP address physically located in Poland. We could then discuss Polish affairs in peace without having to listen to comments about people being murdered, insults about ethnicity, ill-informed opinions from people living abroad, nonsense about Muslims and more.

What about it?
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
Law / Drinking in a parked car. What the Poland's law says? [24]

Wrong. In the UK

I seem to recall that the law has developed to mean that it's a matter of whether or not you are actually capable of controlling the car, or had recently done so. For instance, falling asleep in the driver's seat with the keys in your pocket is an offence, but if the keys are locked in the boot under the spare wheel and you need to perform considerable acrobatics to get to the keys, then it *might* be a defence as long as you can prove that you had no intention to actually use the vehicle.

Polish law seems to be more clear cut in that it seems there's no such law as being drunk in charge of a vehicle, but only straightforward drink-driving. But it all goes back as to whether one would want to argue the toss with the police on the matter.
delphiandomine   
6 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

The truth is that they care for the poor so much because it is a political party they despise which plans to introduce this reform.

Actually, I would be dead against it regardless. TV is a luxury, not a human right. I don't believe there's any need to fund public TV at all - there are plenty of commercial broadcasters willing to use the frequencies for terrestrial TV after all.

Likewise, none of those detectives have observed that the main purpose of this new regulation is to make people who notoriously avoided paying the TV licence pay it from now on.

Isn't the main purpose to provide a huge amount of new revenue for PiS to use in producing pro-government propaganda?

As I said, there are perfectly good subscription-based ways to ensure that people that watching live Polish TV are paying for the licence. Can you provide me with a single reason why it's better to tax everyone as opposed to merely charging an extra subscription fee?

Personally, I was pretty disappointed as well that PO didn't take the chance and turn TVP into a fully commercial broadcaster with an eye to privatisation. There's perhaps a call for TVP Polonia to be funded from the budget for the Polonia, but that's about it.
delphiandomine   
5 Dec 2015
Law / Drinking in a parked car. What the Poland's law says? [24]

I'm sure of this scheme being kosher and a liar-yer friend says this is not so and I would be busted. Who is closer to the truth?

Interesting question. It seems that the law requires you to have actually driven under the influence, and that being in a parked car while drunk is not an offence by itself. There's an explanation here - infor.pl/prawo/wykroczenia/charakterystyka-wykroczen/685586,Prowadzenie-pojazdu-pod-wplywem-alkoholu.html

Whether or not you'd want to risk it is another question - I wouldn't trust the police in any country to not say "oi, you've been drinking and you've got the keys to hand, you've been driving".

Probably the safest bet would be to go and stash the keys somewhere safe nearby, so if the police did turn up, you could quite truthfully point out that you have no means of moving the vehicle and hence you cannot possibly be drink driving.
delphiandomine   
5 Dec 2015
Travel / Poland traffic signs are confusing.. Do you agree? [30]

The idea behind that is, I think, that a driver entering the street from the side street at the intersection cannot know the speed limit that held before.

It's a very sensible idea actually when you get used to it. I'm always confused in other countries (especially Germany) as to what limits actually are - for me, the GPS is invaluable in this case. At least in the UK, there are repeater signs, but these aren't found in other countries.

But then someone of the politicians found out that this is incompatible with some European norms (which is a total bullsh*t, see that Germans still have it and it works there).

From memory, that sign was actually a DDR law, and one of the very few DDR laws that made it beyond October 3rd 1990. I don't remember the exact reason, but I seem to think that they were supposed to be removed and East German drivers protested because it's a sensible idea. Must admit though - I don't turn on red in Germany for the sole reason that I'm not 100% certain of how the law works with that sign.

I actually quite like the signal in general. It reminds you that there's likely to be something coming from your left/right, so even if no-one stops, you still think "hmm, something might be happening here" and so you pay more attention.
delphiandomine   
5 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

A TV-radio fee has been around for years -- only expat foreigners are discovering something "new" (only to them).

Polonius, stop trying to confuse the issue. There hasn't been a mandatory tax on all residents of Poland before.

And the fee is not exorbitant.

Easy for you to say in your villa. Much harder to say if you're a hard working, low earning family.
delphiandomine   
5 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

Have they changed that? Used to be only those with a TV set or radio paid the fee.

PiS are proposing to change it so that every single person pays. Hence, it's an extra tax on hard working, low earning Polish families that you claim to defend so much.

The problem is how to prove it other than having an inspector visit your flat.

It's actually very easy to do - you can simply require the use of a special card to access television, like with satellite or cable television. If you don't pay, you have no access to TV. Add the fee automatically to cable/satellite subscriptions, while those viewing on ordinary TV through an aerial would have to contact TVP to obtain the card.

A subscription-based model is fair and ensures that anyone watching live Polish TV has to pay the yearly fee.
delphiandomine   
5 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

the modest fee.

Modest fee for who? Maybe 10zł/month is nothing for you, but that can provide dinner for a poor family. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for suggesting that poor struggling families should be forced into paying "modest fees".

This is not some new tax

Of course it's a new tax. How else can you explain everyone being forced to pay 10zł a month?

How interesting that Polonius has stopped caring about "hard working, low earning" families as soon as PiS want to charge them.
delphiandomine   
4 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

Thus the poorest will get a tax decrease of more than 50%, while the loudmouth, posh people of the expat community will just get a tax increase, no matter how much they would like to dress it up in the reverse on the PolishForum .

Nice try Ziemowit, but the likelihood is that the poorest aren't paying for the licence anyway.

...I wonder if anyone on here actually pays for it?
delphiandomine   
4 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

Hard-working, low-earning families could choose to do what I do (and what Harry does, and Jon, and Roger, and others...) and not watch live TV and not pay for a licence. Now they're going to be forced into paying for TV that they might not even have.

No matter how you dress it up, this is a tax increase on the poorest.