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convex   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

Exactly, and people that eat fatty foods, and, and, and.

It's an attack on property rights. There are already non smoking places you can go to.

I think my child banning idea is much more sensible. Wait until I link children to high blood pressure...
convex   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

a compromise like this doesn't protect the workers

The point was to use the law to get the general public to stop smoking. Smokers are expensive to public health care systems. If smokers had to pay an additional amount for their insurance, like I do for my private insurance, this wouldn't even be on the table.

Oh, and it hasn't been mentioned here yet so allow me: All of these lying, nannying smoking bans have been pushed by, yep, you guessed it, Liberal zealots.
So somebody tell me again which side is against personal liberty?...

Both of them. Mandated smoking hours is not a compromise, you still have the exact same property rights issues.
convex   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

As for the law itself, there are of course some caveats:

Private establishments under 100m2 are exempt completely

It's up to the owner of spaces over 100m2 on how to segment the smoking and non smoking areas.
convex   
13 Oct 2010
Work / Residence Permit for an Australian in Poland. Applying for another one.. [41]

Shelf company, it'd be yours to trade with nearly immediately, and quite a few people use them to stay here. Regarding the formalities, contact a lawyer. If you're going to be deported, it won't do you any good, and you might as well give it up and head back home.
convex   
13 Oct 2010
Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]

Totally, except for Dutch guys of course, because we're awesome.

Awesome must mean something different in swamp German than it does in English :)
convex   
13 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

Two years this month on this stint, lived in Prague for a good long while before that.

Croatia will be for a couple of months, then leaving the continent altogether (tiny world, might as well explore it).
convex   
13 Oct 2010
Life / Is Poland split into two religions: catholicism and non-believers? [103]

Funny that soldiers who have been in combat have a saying: There are no atheists in foxholes.

While that of course is false but yet commonly repeated, it still brings up a good point... Are people scared into being religious to insure themselves a happy and fruitful afterlife? Is that what all the fuss is about?
convex   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

3 years ago, Pizza Hut operated a segregation policy whereby one half could smoke and the other couldn't.

Seems like a good policy, wouldn't you agree? No need for rules in place further restricting what can be done on private property.
convex   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

There is no reason to have smoking bans in this country.
Owners can post a sign in their doors.
'This is a smoking venue.'
'This is a non-smoking venue.'
This simple solution gives owners and customers choices.
Isn't that the Polish way??

Exactly, but, unfortunately it's not the Polish way.
convex   
12 Oct 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

It's the army museum in Warsaw :)

Is that a spotlight sight? Or flak cannon?
convex   
12 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

I'm going to fund a study linking children to elevated blood pressure and therefore heart attacks. If this turns out to be verifiable, I would expect an immediate ban on children in private businesses.
convex   
12 Oct 2010
News / Eighteen people die in road accident in Poland [10]

18 people fit in a 9-person bus...?

Apparently it was setup for cargo. The way that some people overtake is insane. You see a near hit just about everytime you drive for longer than 20 minutes.
convex   
12 Oct 2010
Travel / Flying in Poland information [9]

Go on, explain this to us :)

Alex got it :) Alma receipt.

1000' visibility, drizzle, fog, scattered clouds at 100', broken clouds at 300'... looks completely overcast to me though :(

Ah well, a chance to cook up my recently purchased pork feast.
convex   
12 Oct 2010
Life / Haircut for men in Wroclaw [11]

Goodbye my darlin' hello unisex salon..
youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6Te7KgSR4
convex   
12 Oct 2010
Life / Haircut for men in Wroclaw [11]

There are salons all over the place. They all have pictures of fruity looking guys plastered on the windows.
convex   
12 Oct 2010
Law / Best Polish returns on $100,000? [23]

Is there something similar in PL?

There is something similar in the US. Check out the PLND ETF.

I think one of the safest bets with a nice return is land, specifically ag. Land prices didn't skyrocket like buildings did. They grew a bit quicker than inflation. 100k might not be enough to see the returns that you want, in agriculture, the bigger the better. Remember EU funds + farming revenue = happy investor.