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convex   
1 Nov 2010
News / New luxury car from Poland - Leopard [37]

Here's their website with some pictures.
leopardautomobile.com

kirkhammotorsports.com/about/kirkham-motorsports-history
Kirkham makes replica cobras here too. Nice stuff.
convex   
31 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / A Polish-American Paper's Final Edition [10]

OK, hey you proud Polish-Americans... someone take over this! MediaWatch, hello??

Since the paper’s early days, an editorial mainstay has been the defense of Polish-Americans against perceived knocks.

I'm not Polish-American, but you folks are. Save this! At the very least, web based version!!!!!
convex   
31 Oct 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

2. Most police lasers use infrared emission, so it's invisible.

doesn't matter what band the lasers operate in, the laser detector will pick them up :) $49 at Walmart will do the job here in Polska...
convex   
31 Oct 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

Absolutely right. That's the dangerous part of driving here, not the driving fast, but having a drunk (or not) idiot passing around a blind corner...Or passing without looking and trying to murder people on motorcycles....
convex   
30 Oct 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

There are speed limits?

The people that want to drive fast do so anyway. Might as well put the emphasis on driving fast safely.
convex   
30 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

True.Americans just live beyond their means and goverment (on all levels)spendings are sky high.

It's artificially increased purchasing power. $46b/mo trade deficit will do that.

Metal backed currency locks value, and you lose your control. Might as well use the Euro.

Actually, it provides stability and has been an effective hedge against inflation. Meddling with fiat currencies has terrible unexpected side effects. Pegging one fiat currency against another is just outsourcing monetary policy. Pegging it against a precious metal which has been (and is) used as a means of retaining value makes quite a bit more sense. The Swiss Franc comes to mind... You can still devalue your currency if it's pegged, no loss of control.

or people who fought in wars or turned 62 years of age and worked all their f=in lifes
and its also for children who lose their parents, or for people who lose arms, legs
and maybe a large machine fell on top of them while they were at work and they lost
their ablilty to walk, but they are still alive..

We're talking about social security disability, of which the requirements to get on aren't exactly stringent. If you don't believe that the program is being massively abused, have a visit to you local trailer park and ask around. The soldiers that you're talking about are paid disability from the military. The people who worked all their lives putting money into a Ponzi scheme, well, their fault. It was proven that it's not sustainable at its inception. Now it's hitting the wall. You'd suggest continuing somehow with a failing system? You want the current working generation to bail out the auto industry, banking industry, continue paying for the massive increase in defense spending that the retiring generation oversaw, and ponzi social security and medicare on top of that? No, no thanks.

Poland needs to get out of their entitlement trap. GDP growth is slowing down as wages increase. Hedging on constant 5%+ growth probably isn't too good of an idea...On the other hand, I'd definitely like to see it.

PS, admin doesn't castrate before making people moderators.
convex   
30 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

It's not my team vs. yours. You're talking about one offs (the wars, colossal waste of money).

I'm talking about trillions in unfunded long term liabilities, the first of which is affecting us this year.

Poland has the the latter looming on the horizon.
convex   
30 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

Convex, America has a debt problem due to 2 unfunded wars. And the money didn't go to the men in uniform, it went to defense contractors.

Those two wars are a drop in the bucket.

BS.Swiss frank is what you call a strong currency.

Amen to that.

Poland will not go belly up......unless it can tackle it's unfunded liabilities.
convex   
30 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

patently ridicules

how so?

In an on the record interview Rostowski said it could be by as much as 6%.

Do you really believe that? Lets call it tax revenue, do you think that total tax revenue will grow 6% year on year? That's all that really matters in the end when we're talking about government debt...the ability to repay it.

The economist you mention seems to assume that the economy stays still from year to year.

And it's an optimistic level of growth for the upcoming future...
convex   
30 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

I'm 24 years old and still have no driving license!!!

come talk to dirty uncle convex, he'll hook you up...

Quick question for any Americans out there - does America have disability benefits?

Yes, social security pays out to people with disabilities...like being to stupid/fat/lazy to work.

Call it what you will, zus, social security, pension... if it's not funded, that is, if your money isn't sitting in a funded account somewhere....you deserve to lose it. If you can explain to me how it's sustainable, I will personally pay your pension from today on out.
convex   
29 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

Argentina crumbled when they debt/gdp ratio got too high and they tried to print their way out of debt. Poland isn't that bad yet, unless someone starts addressing the long term unfunded liabilities, there will be a lot of pain in the future.
convex   
29 Oct 2010
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

That's not because of 1% VAT, that is because of the hidden tax known as inflation. The government officially said it was close to 4% last year. A bit less this year. I think they're full of it.
convex   
29 Oct 2010
News / Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU [115]

Historically most foreigners in Poland like yourself became the enemy within in Poland.

Actually, historically, most foreigners were Polonized which is why you have so many patriotic Poles with non Polish last names... You know, like the good Marshals family :)
convex   
29 Oct 2010
News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]

How it can be a counterforce being roughly 4 times smaller in pretty much every aspect.It is like saying Poland is a counterforce to Russia.

Military + Economy + Regional Organizations = power. Argentina is a South American power, Poland, unfortunately, isn't a European Power.
convex   
28 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / How long would it take for an English style restaurant in Poland to go bust? [80]

the town centre and shopping centres are too expensive for a small business. my opinion.

There is no other option unless you want to go out of business in a years time.

there will be a new restaurant on the river soon. u could try something similar.

Do tell ;)

Acquario, on top of Monopol, is doing extremely well btw.

some sort of student bar/food place. cheap with fast turn around

The problem with "cheap", is that you'll never be able to get the prices down to that of your well connected competition. The race to the bottom is a painful one.

I'm not sure of the breakfast thing, outside of hotels I just don't see Polish people having breakfast in a sit down restaurant on their way to work... It seems like a lot of overhead with not much possible return. I'd start off from 12 noon at the earliest and only try breakfast on a trial basis once things are up and running and going okay.

Depends on where you're at. If you're close to the hotels, you get people who are skipping the €20 buffets. If you're close to offices, you bill yourself as a place for morning meetings. It works surprisingly well in Prague :) Plus, it's not much overhead, you've already got staff in doing prep work, might as well have some bare bones waitstaff to open and do the day to day stuff like take deliveries, inventory, reordering, all that good stuff.
convex   
28 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / How long would it take for an English style restaurant in Poland to go bust? [80]

kind of an eat all you can type place

No way in hell I'd put money into that. By weight, yes, buffet, mmm. That's probably something better to experiment with on the side as opposed to it being the main business. An extended salad bar type deal might work. Something like the golden corral in the US. Basically, the buffet alone is like $10 or something like that, and if you get it with an entree it's half that. Don't remember the specifics, but the idea was to have them pay for an entree (steak or whatever), and then have them buy a buffet on top of that for $3 or whatever, which they might use once.

No set menu will keep it fresh...but have you ever done that before? Seems like you'd end up trying to win people over with quality and atmosphere instead of a favorite dish. Maybe not such a great idea over here?
convex   
28 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / How long would it take for an English style restaurant in Poland to go bust? [80]

How about a diner? Big ass plates of breakfast served anytime. You would have all the expats and you could be the one who got Poles started on breakfast. It will come. Think of yourself as someone from the future.

We did a pilot in Prague, not so hot. I thought it would do great with all the expats and tourists in town.

...That said, TGIF seems to be doing well, even though it's in one of the shopping centers. Interestingly enough, it didn't do too well downtown.

Decent Mexican food would probably do well too. Either cheap or as a bar/restaurant. There is no decent Mexican food in Wroclaw, everything Mexican themed does great though. You can also do American/English breakfasts out of it without compromising the theme. If you want to do either this or a couple of food wagons, let me know. I'd be interested in going in.