UK, Ireland / UK citizen visiting Poland - any restrictions on entering the country? [22]


It certainly used to be the case, and the police can ask for ID at any time, but nobody is ever prosecuted for not carrying one.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


So which would you prefer? Western Democracy or Eastern Totalitarianism?

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


So it isn't democratic? Who's supposed to decide about joining this 'eurasian'/Russian thing - the people by a referendum or something less transparent?

[quote=sascha]the aus intelligence service spied on 800.000 fb users, randomly selected....that guy/hacker u may call him is giving lessons all over the globe for companies/institutions which wnat to make their it net more safe...hes 28 years old.[/quote

At least a/ people know about it and b/they have access to Facebook in the first place. Many millions of computer users round the world (in countries with extreme political ideologies) aren't so lucky.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


Maybe elaborate on that?

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Evidently.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Around 50% stayed, 50% returned.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


Similar enough. Cynical idealogues.


There's something in that. No accident that repressive regimes tend to hate Facebook and Twitter.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


Maybe because the 'mass media' sometimes get it right. You probably have more exposure to the 'mass media' that I do nowadays, so perhaps you'd know. Remeber, the people who write newspaper copy or TV news scripts are ordinary folks. No invisible censor. Not in the West, anyway.


The economy's reasonably stable, nothing disastrous has happened and he seems to be a leader of great integrity, if not vision. A technician rather than a demagogue, but that's no bad thing.


Enough of the textspeak. Dosyć!


This will be true. History has already told us about the horrors of Russian domination. At least in the West when there's a knock on the door at 6 am, you know it'd FedEx.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


It still makes no sense!


You mean the one you disagree with.


Something you have amply demonstarted you do not have.


Why join it? No reason to join and every reason to avoid. One starting point would be that almost every interaction between Poland and Russia over the last millenium has been a tragedy for Poland.

News / The cross in Polish parliament - Does it bother you? [100]

Don't forget the shape-shifting alien Rothschilds.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


The what?


You seem to equate a 'critical view' with your own set of beliefs.


Rarely. Poland is a reality not an idea in the mind of outsiders. Especially ones who seem to be suggesting that Poland joins an 'economic community' dominated by Russia.


You mean the guy they just re-elected.


This actually means nothing.

And less of the 'ur' 'r' 'u' 'ru'. This isn't an sms.

News / Polish Diaspora - many of these 20 million actually speak Polish? [79]


The exact quote, if I remember, was: "Poland isn't so much a country as a disturbed state of mind"!

News / Poland Elections oct 2011/your feed back about RP Janusz Palikot? Poland is changing! [106]


And given the high tax rates, the increasing cost of living etc, it's no surprise that a) excellent teachers (whether native speakers or not) need privates and b) the 'informal economy' is so strong. Poland's economic growth is partly at the cost of skilled professionals whose income doesn't always match their abilities. It's why I'm sitting on a ship in the middle of the ocean dreaming of getting back to Poland in a week or so. Lots of Poles working in the UK (or indeed on this ship) can say the same.

News / Poland Elections oct 2011/your feed back about RP Janusz Palikot? Poland is changing! [106]

It's a huge amount for a self-employed person out in the sticks who might only be turning over a couple of thousand.

USA, Canada / A typical Polish American wedding [25]


Probably a hand held cine camera.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


Given that I live in PL and you don't, I'm rather more qualified to speak than you who have only an abstract view, and trolling at that.


Zero. This so-called Eurasion thing is Russian expansionism, abhorrent to Poland.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]

Exactly. Nothing to with Poland at all.

News / Polish Diaspora - many of these 20 million actually speak Polish? [79]

And beautiful photos taken by people pointing their camera at the best bits, and a print of Zakopane or Lwow on the wall. To be fair, foreigners with Polish roots aren't the only ones who do that. Go into your average Indian diaspora family's house and you're far more likely to see a picture of the Taj Mahal than the slums of Calcutta.

USA, Canada / A typical Polish American wedding [25]

Looks lovely!

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


A real breath of fresh air?

News / Polish Diaspora - many of these 20 million actually speak Polish? [79]


Or even that people knew something about Poland and the Polish but knew nothing about Lemk, Boyk, Kaszub, Galician, Slazak etc.

Life / Ideas for constructive Immigration methods for Poland. [30]


Yes. There's a huge number of foreigners who've settled in Japan.

News / Polish Diaspora - many of these 20 million actually speak Polish? [79]


Estimates are usually over a million. According to census data the population prior to the rush after EU entry was 200,000.

News / Poland's 'oburzeni' (indignant)? [41]


Generally something one does if they can't get on a science course. However as usual, Dessie is trying to take the thread off topic.

The so-called oburzenie is very much a copycat thing. There is genuine discontent, but not enough to bring people out on the streets. Basically, PL has a stable economy, a popular government and (the capital at any rate) is growing. But in Poland people are aware of what's happening elsewhere and the jeunesse doree don't want to feel outdone.

News / Poland's 'oburzeni' (indignant)? [41]


Very true.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

More probably because he's the founder of the party; the party bears his name and unlike most of the other parties (I'm especially thinking PiS and SLD here, though PO are by no means immune) there aren't factions, camps, cliques each with their own spokespeople jostling for a place in the limelight. A dearth of spindoctors too.

News / What do PO voters expect from the new Polish government ? [32]

That's a fairly normal figure for Polish elections. If anything, it's the older generation who are more likely to vote - remember the 'hide granny's identity card' campaign a few years ago. Some of this is this is to do with the meldunek system - people are often registered as living (and voting) somewhere they don't actually live. It's possible to switch one's vote to the city, but as usual in PL, it needs documents, rubber stamps, queues etc.

News / What do PO voters expect from the new Polish government ? [32]


Largely in your mind.


I think you'll find that most of the people who voted PO were not privately educated. Though figures show that they are more likely to have finished high school than PiS voters.


I wonder if Jaroslaw Kaczynski has ever realised that...

News / Poland's 'oburzeni' (indignant)? [41]


I wouldn't call him that. A showman maybe, but he is very shrewd and increasingly popular.

The protest in Warsaw wasn't a riot, it wasn't like the protests Spain (with 40% youth unemployment), it wasn't even another Greece.


This has long been the case in some European countries.

In Poland, the mass emigration to the UK and Ireland was a safety valve - it helped ease (though didn't solve) a lot of problems more or less overnight. That option has gone now.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


And they do.


So they shouldn't attack an opposition party? They should only attack the party who just won? They did plenty of that when PiS were (briefly) in government. Are you really saying that a newspaper or other media outlet shouldn't support a particular party simply because the voters chose it? Weird.


Exactly. The market decides. As do the voters.