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convex   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

In YOUR culture it is. And if you wish to hang on to your idea of courtesy, you might just have to get used to the fact that most people will not acknowledge it in Poland. At least not in a busy street or walking out a door with a crowd of people.

I hold the door open for people and just about every time get a thank you or a smile. Get up for old ladies too, that seems to be appreciated as well.. People even hold the door for me every now and then...
convex   
8 May 2011
News / POLISH COPS TO BREATHALISE CANOE USERS.... [30]

Learn to read. It's an amendment of the existing bill, to include water sports.

I'm learning....but, public intoxication is already illegal. Again, why the need for new regulation?

if there is no limit to how much alcohol can be consumed

The limit is reached by having a beer. With that kind of BAC, you can still fly an aircraft with passengers on it, but not canoe...
convex   
8 May 2011
News / POLISH COPS TO BREATHALISE CANOE USERS.... [30]

One never knows when such nice relaxing conditions turn to a real disaster

Two beers, 2500zl penalty. Public intoxication is already illegal in Poland. Why the need for new regulation when it already exists?
convex   
8 May 2011
News / POLISH COPS TO BREATHALISE CANOE USERS.... [30]

We're not talking about this level of "drunk" here at all.

The law will fine you for having a single beer. .05 is two beers. Airline pilots have a limit of .04...are canoes really that complicated to operate?
convex   
8 May 2011
News / POLISH COPS TO BREATHALISE CANOE USERS.... [30]

Anyone over the "limit" endangering others lives, is indeed an idiot. I assume there will be a breathalyser if in doubt?

0.2 is a single beer, and it's already illegal to recklessly endanger other people's lives.
convex   
5 May 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish wedding music/bands in the UK [10]

Are you planning on flying them in to wherever you're at? Might want to post in the classifieds and include a bit of information the "where and when"...
convex   
3 May 2011
Feedback / Help - register question and password - I didn't get any email [4]

And today i make a post, and off topic question on my thread asked about the password, someone told me to use another username

Please stand by, operators will be with you shortly.

Just tested it out, works ok. You should get an email from "info@polishforums.com".

You can try going to /index.php?action=sendpass to have another password sent out.
convex   
3 May 2011
News / "Poland is flourishing" [62]

It's not really a matter of individual wealth, it's purchasing power (and more importantly, industrial wealth). Poland is doing well by increasing manufacturing jobs. Time to rally the wagons and start working on trade barriers in the short term to capitalize on the manufacturing gains...
convex   
27 Apr 2011
Life / Expats, are you happy with your life in Poland? [43]

I liked Poland before meeting my girlfriend, having visited a couple of times way back when. But yea, she was the primary reason for moving from Prague. Seems like any other place really, not too much of a difference. I could see how it would seem to be night and day if all you've seen is the "rich" countries, but uh, really, comes across as just another address. People are people regardless of where you go. Some of the rituals are different, you have a different proportion of certain types of people...but they're more or less the same regardless of where you go.
convex   
27 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

There is no reason why wage increases should outstrip inflation - the rationale for wage increases should be increased productivity.

Right, and one would think with all the FDI, EU money, and new business models being pumped into Poland, that productivity would be increasing... For stagnant (stable) developed economies, I'd tend to agree with you.
convex   
23 Apr 2011
Travel / Which way from Poland to Croatia.... [30]

Dubrovnik is really nice. Skip split, it's interesting for a about a day, and mainly used as a jump point for trips to the islands.
convex   
23 Apr 2011
News / Drug Policy Reform in Poland [29]

At that point it goes beyond protecting individuals from themselves, those individuals have decided to harm others. That's where the social contract is breeched and the state has a role to protect individuals. The problem is that a small minority of people that do drugs harm others, the vast majority are just doing harm to themselves. Why not redirect services towards enforcing the laws on the books that are meant to protect others? Taxes on cigarettes and the shorter lifespans of non-smokers more than pay for medical costs in social-welfare states (see the smoking thread). It's a question of mentality, some people have an addictive personality. Some people do just fine recreationally using drugs. I think that personal responsibility should be the key, if you can't handle your shit on drugs, and you decide to do them, you should be punished. Seems like an easy system...I take issue with the idea that people are too stupid or irresponsible to take care of themselves.
convex   
23 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Btw most eager I recall was US to go in there and start another mess.

Guess you and I were following different commentary. Obama had to more or less subvert Congress because it would have never passed a vote. It will be shot down once it comes to a vote.
convex   
23 Apr 2011
News / Drug Policy Reform in Poland [29]

The government shouldn't have a role applying morality under the guise of "protecting individuals from themselves". It's a failed policy.
convex   
23 Apr 2011
Study / AFRICAN STUDENTS INVASION in Krakow [197]

good point, you dont hear about many blacks getting beat senseless in the small towns. In fact you dont anywhere in Poland kind of like the big kids telling the small kids they'll get their heads flushed down the toilets at big school - it just never happens.

Well, I'm willing to call you out on the never happens bit...but, I stand by the small towns being safer than the cities....
convex   
22 Apr 2011
Genealogy / Stanisław-derived last names [8]

Is there any reason that some Polish last names (like Stanisław) often end up as given names as well? Is there any kind of background to why some surnames ended up at the front of the chain as well?
convex   
22 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

You can better call that 'resolution' green light order for US to go in another war for pure self interest.

Might want to talk to France and the UK as to why they were so gung-ho about going in.

No fugees of any kind in Poland.Period.The country is already broke and there is more than enough Polish people in need of ***************** fugees only want free housing and ********* them.I want to be a fugee too and live of somone's else money.Where do I need to apply?

First you'd need to get shot at, then, you flee to another country for the safety of your family. At that point, you stick around in a camp for a year, then you get on the "lite" version of the welfare system that so many worthless people here are exploiting (see my ex-neighbors upstairs).
convex   
21 Apr 2011
History / United States of America Vs Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [74]

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and America are very different in many aspects - one major for example is PLC never had powerful standing army (because of fear of the noble classes that the kings will take the country over like in the West or in Russia) contrary to America

The United States was never meant to have a powerful standing army for the exact same reasons (change nobles for states, and kings for federal government).
convex   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

Odessa-Brody- and perhaps further Płock, Gdańsk is (and will) not a gas pipeline but an oil one- so no Turkmen gas will ever flow through it (btw there is no guarantee it will ever be extended to Poland - at the moment it pumps oil in the opposite direction i.e. to the Black Sea

If a pipeline can be built to pump oil, why can't one be built to pump gas?

there were some vague ideas of transporting LNG from postulated terminals in Georgia than pumping it through Ukraine to Poland - the problem is at the source: Russians bribe and/or threat Central Asiatic countries including Azerbaijan into pumping their gas through their network and abandoning projects to deliver gas to Europe through Turkey and the Balkans

Quite a bit of gas flows through Georgia and Turkey and is then tankered over the Black Sea. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan are actively looking for ways to sell their oil and gas without having to rely on Gazprom to play the middleman.

Poland needs to get off it's haunches and get after it....but, in reality, it's not that big of a concern as the supply will always be next door one way or the other.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

Poland couldn't build a pipeline without Russians agreeing to it - wouldn't it end on the Latvian border somewhere??? - you don't just build pipelines everywhere and then wait till someone cares to pump some gas into it

Oil and gas doesn't just come from Russia.

I don't think Poland is building any natural gas pipeline with Ukraine - I don't know if Poland contributed to the Brody-Odessa project (a crude oil pipeline - not a natural gas one) financially - there were some plans to extend it to Płock and Gdańsk

That's a choice left to Poland on whether it wants to pursue that route. Brody-Plock would mean bypassing Russia all together...and provide access to Turkmen gas...you know, where the Russians get their stuff from. There was also a plan to build an underwater pipeline to Denmark to link up to Norwegian gas and oil. Again, a Polish decision.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
Law / Let's see how good is your Polish income tax law knowledge :-) [8]

If you're not a resident of a foreign country, you don't qualify for the exclusion. You have to be registered in Poland (or some other foreign country) to qualify (which is a requirement anyway after 90 days, but no one really cares if you're self employed).

From my research it seems that I will have to go through the paperwork and establish self employment in Poland in order to pay my income taxes and ZUS? Does this sound correct in your opinions?

You're exactly right.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Of course, but once you lose the population and spread yourself thin, what's to prevent a neighbor from rolling in and taking it all again? Aggressive neighbors make for, well aggressive neighbors.