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convex   
13 Sep 2010
History / In Memory of victims, who had their lives cruelly taken at Treblinka Death Camp in Poland [104]

Apparently we will never forget, but that doesn't mean that we care about genocide. The last 15 years have seen some of the worst genocides in history take place...and the world sat by and watched TV.

On a side note, visited Auschwitz again this Sunday. Between 10-15 you have to go with a tour guide. It's a shame because the tour seems to be set up for 8 year olds, and comes across as a rush job. It feels like they organized it using amusement parks as a model. I went alone a few years back before you had to take a guide, and it had a huge impact. This time, it just seemed incredibly disrespectful with tourists posing for pictures, not taking off their hats, smoking on the grounds of the museum, chatting away on cell phones... It seems to have become a popular stop with the "European Package Tour" crowd.

:(
convex   
13 Sep 2010
Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]

What I don't get is the definition of terrorism. Murders carried out by right wing racists aren't included. The report is a decent read. From the report, apparently member states are incorrectly categorizing right wing terrorism as "extremism".

Interesting read though.
convex   
13 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

What's with this obsession you have with Kielbasa and Pierogis? LOL

wtf is pierogis? same thing as raviolis and gnocchis?

The last thing in the world you care about is putting time and energy into promoting or helping Poland or Polish people.

Just out of curiosity, how do you help Poland? How do most most Americans with Polish ancestry support Poland? Do most people who consider themselves "Polish-Americans" speak Polish? This part isn't meant as a dig at you (the pierogis comment on the other hand..).
convex   
10 Sep 2010
News / Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU [115]

It was an answer to 'Muslims see Christians as brothers'. They don't.

It depends on the place. Most places have more loyalty to region/locality/country than their religion. Albania and Macedonia are good examples.
convex   
10 Sep 2010
News / Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU [115]

Conveniently not.

I didn't mention it because it's not a place where various religions live together without problems. It's a theocratic monarchy propped up by "Christian" nations. The question was, is there anywhere where Muslims and non Muslims live together without problems. I offered up some places.

So what you are trying to tell me that any religious minorities in any Muslim country have a picnic?

Did I say that anywhere? I said, there are plenty of places where Muslims and other followers of other religions live peacefully side by side. I gave a couple of examples based on first hand experience. That's all.

"Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the 300 million-member Orthodox Christian Church, feels "crucified" living in Turkey under a government he says would like to see his nearly 2,000-year-old Patriarchate die out. "

You forgot to mention that the reason that it might die out is because he no longer has any followers. If they were trying to shut him down, they wouldn't tolerate him breaking the law by being a non Turkish religious leader. Old Ataturk knew what he was doing there, and put those laws into place in order to prevent foreign religious meddling in internal secular Turkish affairs. In Turkey, all religions are in the decline. Old people go to mosque. You also fail to mention the Greek-Turkish conflicts, it seems that you're trying to turn long standing territorial hostilities into a religious conflict.
convex   
10 Sep 2010
News / Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU [115]

There is a place in Hell dedicated for infidels, Jews and Christians included, and in prominent place. That's what I learned from an Islamic 'primer'. So if the message starts with complete and brutal exclusion of non-Muslims, then what is the attitude in the inner circles?

How does this differ from Christian belief?
convex   
10 Sep 2010
News / Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU [115]

You are not serious. How is Jewish minority in Saudi Arabia or Jordan? Is there one? Christian minority's school flourishing in Turkey? How come you can get killed for selling Christmas trees in Lebanon? And so on ...

Did I mention Saudi? Saudi is a theocratic dictatorship supported by foreign powers, much worse than Iran as far as freedom of religion is concerned. Funny you should mention Jordan, that's probably a shining example of Christians and Muslims living together just going about their business. There are quite a few Christian schools in Turkey, hell, have you been to Turkey? And Lebanon, you might want to tell the Christians and Muslims that work at Bou Khalil that they could get shot selling their little Christmas trees...

Have you been to any of the places that you mentioned?
convex   
10 Sep 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

What's also funny is that your own article discussed how Poles were complaining about the delay in information coming from Russia on the plane crash including Prime Minister Tusk asking the Russian government to explain the reason for the delay. DID YOU READ YOUR OWN ARTICLE??? Maybe you're the one only seeing what you want to see.

Read the article again, then try again, and again. Notice the part about politicians using this as leverage, and the investigators being satisfied with the level of cooperation? Last time I checked, Tusk wasn't heading any investigations.

Not to mention that recent link I commented on (Seanus' article in Polish - not mine) where one of the Polish investigators when he was in the US said he thought the Russian major in charge of the Russian airtower had responsibility in the plane crashing because he lured the plane to come down to 50 meters.

The controller wasn't flying the plane. Read the transcript. They knowingly descended past DH. Radar had them roughly on glide slope down to 100m. They continued their descent into obstacles. If you don't believe the transcript, you're at odds with the Polish military.

Were PO to be more proactive as a party, they would follow through on this.

I doubt that. They'd look like fools trying to second guess the investigators. That would open up a brand new can of worms about preparedness and planning. It would probably get ugly fairly quickly.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

It cannot be known why they did it. What more info do you need to put that beyond reasonable doubt?

They were moving in too fast and pilots on various fora agree on this point.

Why would there be a Russian navigator on board?

You'd look at things like training, auditing, CRM...

IFR flights in Russia usually require a Russian navigator.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

Convex, let's not go round in circles with this.

No reason to go around in circles, it's very very basic. If they knowingly descended below 100m, they are at fault. Seeing as the navigator made that call out and they continued to descend, well, the only conclusion that I could draw would be that they either had the runway in sight (which they would have called out), or they decided to push it a little bit.

No need to discuss the radar, bulbs, weather conditions. They reached DH and continued their descent. They flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ground due to gross negligence on their behalf.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

Convex, I have two words for you. NOT SUICIDAL ;)

We can make it even easier, single word, NEGLIGENT

Guided to 100 metres and no more? They were not guided to 100 metres above ground but 100 metres from their present position above the canyon, that's my point!

Because 100m keeps them clear of obstacles in the area, 95m doesn't. 100m means 100m. They knowingly descended through 100m without sight of the ground.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

An altimeter does not measure the height above the ground...! It measures the height above sea level , so you can be flying at 500 feet , and crash into a hill that is 510 feet above sea level....

Ruskies use QFE in terminal airspace. Should read 0 when on the runway.

On the other hand, it doesn't really matter, as per the transcripts, they ignored it anyway.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
Life / Poland, maybe the world's last bastion of faith [67]

In World War II we were truly fighting for freedom.

Are you a WW2 vet? I didn't fight in WW2, nor would I identify myself with the folks that went through hell fighting that war.

WW2 had nothing to do with political and economic gains? I mean, the US wasn't exactly fighting a charity battle...

Pure FASCISM, the idea that waging war is virtuous or leads to virtue, also it is Anti-Christian.
Where did you learn this? Certainly not in the Christian Bible.

Old Testament my man. Christianity is a religion of violence.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Huge costs of preparing for EURO 2012 in Poland [38]

But my intention was rather to find out if you are into aerial photography, and if so, to suggest that SCC would be just the right place to share.

I usually have my hands full when I'm in the air :)

It's a low wing plane, so the visibility isn't really that great. You have to bank fairly steep or shoot over the wing with a zoom lens. Better to do it with two people in the plane :)
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Huge costs of preparing for EURO 2012 in Poland [38]

Convex, do you making some aerial photos?

It's a bit difficult to get permission to fly over the city directly as it's all controlled airspace, but it's doable. Are you in Wroclaw? We can try to request half an hour for aerial photography. You can buy lunch.
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

You mean to tell me the fact the Russians have not given back the black boxes (just their transcript version of what was said) and that the Russian airtower personnel all of a sudden resigned never to be heard from again and that other pilots find inconsistencies with those Russian transcripts like the length of time, mysterious 16 seconds missing, etc doesn't at least make you think there is at least a CHANCE of something is fishy here?

Funny that the people in charge of the investigation on the Polish side aren't complaining...

Have a link regarding the controllers? Pavel Plusnin has disappeared?

Maybe you're just seeing what you want to see?
convex   
9 Sep 2010
News / Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU [115]

Although it is probably true that Poland hosts lowest proportion of foreigners in the EU, this number 35000 it totally unreliable. Vietnamese alone makes up according to different sources between 20000 - 60000.

Quite of few of them have passports, no longer foreigners

Which is why the ethnically homogenous description doesn't sound accurate.

Poles were uprooted and moved West...which was cleared of Germans.