PolishForums LIVE  /  Archives [3]    
   
Posts by delphiandomine  

Joined: 25 Nov 2008 / Male ♂
Warnings: 1 - Q		 Last Post: 17 Feb 2021
Threads: Total: 86 / In This Archive: 69
Posts: Total: 17813 / In This Archive: 12419 		From: Poznań, Poland
Speaks Polish?: Yeah.
Interests: law, business

Displayed posts: 12488 / page 115 of 417
sort: Latest first   Oldest first   |
delphiandomine   
4 Dec 2015
Life / Is it common for Polish people to speak English in Poland? [122]

Most Poles also don't realize that most British singers sing in American (a few like Oasis or the Proclaimers don't).

You might find this very interesting if you like that sort of thing - atlasobscura.com/articles/i-made-a-linguistics-professor-listen-to-a-blink-182-song-and-analyze-the-accent

I'd say most British people also don't realise it - it's why bands like Biffy Clyro are so distinctive because they keep the Scottish accent.
delphiandomine   
4 Dec 2015
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

That considerable section are just a tiny minority as I have said.

Not really. Most normal, rational people that aren't blinded by hate can respect Michnik for what he's done, hence why he tends to get awarded by credible institutions.

Bah, not at all , you just need to read my post without your usual bias against me.

Your post is just the same old regurgitated nonsense from fronda.pl and other places. If you said that he was a deeply divisive figure and that some sections of society absolutely hate him - it would be true. But claiming that the "majority of Poles hate him" isn't true in the slightest.

Hmm don't like him for a reason but he is no longer somebody to be reckoned with, he lost all his standing in society.

Could agree with that. There's a new generation coming through.
delphiandomine   
3 Dec 2015
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

but personally he is a very composed, intense, warm and intelligent person

Which means that he's essentially a political opportunist, just like Kaczyński. I've never believed that either of them actually believed the stuff they come out with.

I wouldn't call them moderate after all their are revolutionary at heart, neither they are reasonable with they ideology defying sense and logic.

I think anyone who doesn't live in the world of PiS or the far-right can respect Michnik for what he's done.

Let's be honest : had Michnik been a pro-PiS journalist, you would never say a bad word about him.
delphiandomine   
3 Dec 2015
Travel / Poland traffic signs are confusing.. Do you agree? [30]

Virtual beer for the settler.

With pleasure ;)

White on green town signs (and older ones, such as black on white and inner-city blue on white) are only for informational purposes, not for speed limit purposes. The only signs that change the speed limit are the normal speed limit signs, and the black and white "town" sign.

google.com/maps/@52.4043153,17.0468172,3a,75y,114.7h,85.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saw-jQsfTexfbhNWRRgfNnQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 - this is for informational purposes only

google.com/maps/@52.4036835,17.0522935,3a,37.5y,98.34h,82.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9fOfHYlDaFYkK21DZRSuLQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 - this is the beginning of the blanket 50km/h (unless signed otherwise) zone. It's about 300-400m after the name of the town sign.

I say it's 70 kph until you pass a crossed-out second white on green sign.

Nope, 90km/h unless signed otherwise (or you entered the "town" zone).

What took me forever to get used to was the idea of a junction "cancelling" the speed limit. It's second nature now, but for a long time, I was always looking for confirmation of what the speed limit actually was.
delphiandomine   
3 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

Seems to me that you would have to pay that tax like everybody else.

See, what gets me is that you're openly supporting legislation that will hurt hard working, low earning families the most. 10zł a month might be nothing for members of this forum, but it's a lot of money to someone that has very little.
delphiandomine   
3 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

No matter you seeing it wrongly as TV license fee it is not longer that, it is a new tax for public TV, hence it doesn't matter whether you are watching TV or not.

Which is why it's perfectly legal in the eyes of the law. I might not agree with it, but there's nothing illegal about it.

Ah and few foreigners who are struggling with Polish language and hence do not watch Polish TV anyways do not count due to their small number.

And people like me that own a large TV but never watch live TV - I only ever watch documentaries and other interesting programmes through catch-up TV, never anything on live TV. Or I use it to play games on - I don't even have a TV aerial connected, nor am I connected to any sort of cable system. Plenty of people are similar - live TV just isn't worth watching. Why bother, when Netflix, Youtube, on-demand services and a few others provide all you can possibly want?
delphiandomine   
3 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

If you have a TV, you need to buy a licence, whether or not you watch the BBC.

No, only if you watch live TV. Look here - tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/Live-TV-and-how-you-watch-it

You couldnt fecking make it up could you?

Nope, it's madness in this day and age that we're forced to support public TV services.

I wouldn't object to a 40zł tax to fund Polskie Radio, but funding TVP...hahahaha. It will be PiSTV through and through, only presenting approved viewpoints and any journalist that dares to contradict PiS will be immediately fired.
delphiandomine   
3 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

I cannot be forced to pay for something I do not make use of.

So you might think, but similar systems (usually using electricity bills) have been in place in several countries for years and no-one has won any legal challenge to them. The way it works is that it's just a surcharge on your electricity bill (a tax on using electricity, if you will) - and Finland simply has a special tax that goes to pay for their public broadcaster.

If a good lawyer fought the electricity companies and ultimately the Government regarding the imposition of the 10 pln on every household bill, they would win, even if the case has to go to Strasbourg.

They probably wouldn't, not without causing huge problems to many national broadcasters in Europe. The EBU (which is what is behind Eurovision) is also massively influential and would fight all the way.

In my view, you cannot be made to pay for a service (tv and radio) which you do not receive as you may not have a TV or radio in your house.

Usually with these tax-based systems, you're not paying for TV, you're paying a special tax which is for funding public television and radio.
delphiandomine   
2 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

That's pretty terrible to be honest, but makes me wonder how effective trying to enforce it will be?

It will be very easy. PiS have put two proposals on the table - first one is that it will be through a mandatory addition to the yearly income tax declaration (unlike in the UK, everyone is obliged to submit a tax return here) - and the second is that it will be like the Greek system where there's a mandatory addition to electricity bills.

Either way makes sure that the tax will be paid by everyone.

As it stands at the moment with the TV license system, so a friend was telling me a couple of weeks ago, it's pretty easy to get out of paying the licence fee, and many people don't.

Yep, the current system is very easy to avoid. It's a fee collected by Poczta Polska, but they have no legal authority to enter your property. The vast majority of people don't pay for it, and there are no checks whatsoever.

What happened last time PiS turned TVP into PiSTV was that PO were very successful in telling people not to pay for the licence, and many people stopped paying. Why TVP can't be reformed into a pay-TV channel is beyond me, but well - Putin's example from Russia shows how important it is to control publicly-available TV.
delphiandomine   
2 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

The British government does exactly the same to pay to that crappy left-wing communist channel called BBC.

No, it doesn't. If you don't watch live TV, you're not obliged to pay for it.

Even if you dont watch BBC you need to pay for that sh*t.

Wrong. If you don't watch live TV then you don't pay for it. A significant amount of people in the UK never watch live TV and instead watch catch-up TV on the numerous services available, which doesn't require a licence.

By the way, making everyone pay for something regardless if they use it or not is very very communist indeed.
delphiandomine   
2 Dec 2015
News / PiS to force every hard working, low earning Polish family to pay for TV [96]

Well, well, well...entirely as predicted, PiS have announced details of their public TV plan, and the most important thing?

Every single home will be forced to pay for TV regardless if they have one or not.

wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/10,114927,19282238,koniec-z-abonamentem-rtv-pis-przygotowal-nowa-ustawe-zaplaca.html#Prze

PiS wants a new media law that could come into force as early as January 2016. Politicians from PiS have plans to abolish the radio/television subscription. In return, each household would have to pay a 10 zł audiovisual monthly fee.

That's right. You don't have a TV? Doesn't matter. PiS will make you pay for it. That's 120zł extra tax yearly on every hard working, low earning Polish family.
delphiandomine   
1 Dec 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

There's a very interesting graphic that shows how the "independent" right wing media is actually controlled by PiS.

wykop.pl/ramka/2809039/niezalezne-media-wg-pis

That's why they think that any attack on PiS must be "sponsored", because they sponsor attacks on the opposition.
delphiandomine   
1 Dec 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

it simply a fact that some circles in Poland are sponsoring articles blacking PiS and Poland.

Ironside, do you really not know much about how Communists ruled people's heads? All this talk of internal enemies "sponsoring articles" and so on - it's entirely the same nonsense that they used. There's really no need for anyone to sponsor articles - PiS are behaving like idiots and it's showing.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

You're surprised to see Poisonious3 defending the indefensible?!

I'm not surprised at all to see him defend PZPR comrades.

I just wonder how anyone could be so deluded as to support an "anti-communist" party that then appoints ex-communists to positions of power.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

The only possible riposte is: 42% v 17%!

You're justifying appointing a communist-era prosecutor, dissident-prosecuting and valued member of the PZPR to a human rights commission on the basis of a single opinion poll?

Wow.

How would this affect the still relatively positive Polish opinion of EU membership?

Won't change anything. Turkey is nowhere near EU membership. We will probably see EU law being applied more and more to Turkey in exchange for further economic ties, but that's about it.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

All the foreigners are mad

Mad? We're getting even ;)

More importantly, I wonder when all the Polonia are going to return now that PiS won, like they claimed.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

The individual you are trying to discredit did everything possible under the circumstances to aid the accused and was taking a bigger risk than those distributing underground leaflets.

He did everything possible? What about not joining the party and not being a prosecutor?

He took part in an act of oppression. What makes him qualified in any way, shape or form to lead a human rights committee?

Stop trying to justify the unjustifiable, Polonius.

Basically they can't deal with dissent, constantly look for enemies and are absolutely petrified that as they weaken, a more outspoken and dynamic rival than Platforma will appear.

Indeed. They should be worried - I can see that KOD is organising rapidly, and PiS are trying to throw all sorts of accusations at them already. If they can't deal with a small initiative like this, what hope have they got against the PO machine?

Some gung-ho commie did do the job, and did it so well he won awards for his work.

Did he return the award, I wonder?
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

Usually that means not appointing prosecutors in undemocratic regimes to human rights commissions.

Face it Greggy, you'd be first to sign up for ZOMO. Sticking the boot to the face of Poland has always been a favourite pastime of your types.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

P(etty)i(nfraction)S.

It's nice to see that you think that defrauding the taxpayer and working as a communist-era prosecutor that was responsible for prosecuting dissidents are "petty infractions".
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

(And Lodz is WAY.WAYYYYYYYYYYYY Poorer than Wroclaw).

Poor Levi, getting the facts wrong as always. Last year, the average salary in £ódź was only about 300zł less than in Wrocław. It's not "WAY WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY" poorer at all.

See, this is what happens when Brazilians living in Saudi Arabia try and present facts about Poland.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

Hahahaha. If it was only 6, why are PiS so worried about them?

As for PiS changing the system, I rather suspect more people didn't vote for "bringing all sorts of criminals and thieves into the government".
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

Why?

It's rather funny that PiS are already panicking over an emerging movement of ordinary citizens, actually. They're already terrified and suggesting that such groupings should be banned.
delphiandomine   
29 Nov 2015
News / US military hardware coming to Poland [76]

Are you really so naive to believe that a conflict between NATO and Russia would stay conventional?

From memory, NATO plans in the event of direct conflict involved defending like hell, then if they were going to lose, retailiating with nuclear strikes on the front line to try and force a stoppage in combat. If that failed, then the world was finished.

Having said that, I do think it depends on the conflict. I'm not convinced that NATO would use nuclear weapons to defend anywhere east of Germany.