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convex   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

Now here's one for you, it's about guaranteeing the supply. Less partners in a business relationship means more reliability. If it could be done cheaper, Poland should build an overground route....much like they're doing with the Ukraine....
convex   
21 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Increase territory while decreasing the population. Interesting approach.
convex   
20 Apr 2011
News / British man accused of molesting teenagers in Poland [74]

if he's got form, he'll be found out.

If the crime happened in the UK. I'm guessing that the JP2 Polish supplementary school hires quite a few foreigners.

So require them to produce a similar document from Poland. I'm frankly a bit surprised that the school in question doesn't.

Yup, just like when starting a company. It's not too difficult, and would cover the majority of people applying. Wouldn't do much for serial criminals.

It seems that you have misunderstood the regulations.

The applicant still has to fill out the form. If I'm a Swiss guy that has been convicted of a crime in Bulgaria and am applying for a position in Britain, all I'd have to do is just not tell you that I was in Bulgaria. That's what I meant by honor system and a CYA form. Especially considering the number of people that are passing through for a year or so and then move on to somewhere else (lots of them in Prague, Budapest, Bucharest...not so many here I suppose).
convex   
20 Apr 2011
News / British man accused of molesting teenagers in Poland [74]

the type of policy set by a Polish supplementary school in the UK which can be found here.

Seems like more of an attempt to "CYA" by the management of the school. It's all based on voluntary disclosure and assumes that the applicant will be honest. It gets even more complicated when you start employing foreigners. CRB doesn't have any records on their activities in their home countries, and their past will be much more difficult to verify? Did Mr Kowalski, or Ms Schmidt, or Mr Evans get a conviction in Romania before moving to the UK? What if they don't voluntarily disclose that they worked there? It seems like in the end it's still more or less based on the honor system.
convex   
20 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

So what if it is only a minority of European people?

Because not every person that holds an opinion can be catered to. Some racists don't want to see black men with white women (and vice versa), some don't want to see minorities at all. Should they don a mask?

If an black knocks on your door asking if he could live in your house for the rest of his life and you and your kids agree

But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about things that don't affect you directly. Quite a few Germans don't like Poles, and plenty of Poles don't like Germans. Does that mean that Germans shouldn't get together with Poles at the risk of offending someone? I mean Aryans and....Slavs? eww right? Should we respect their opinions? Are we flaunting it when we speak German in Poland, or Polish in Germany together?
convex   
19 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

Not in US and certainly not in Poland.

It's not justification, it's just how they developed.

They should always keep in mind that they are just immigrants to the EU and thus shouldn't offend native Europeans or otherwise face the negative reactions.

Offend a small group of native Europeans. Why should the bigot minority be catered to when most people don't have a problem?
convex   
19 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

I charge as they were standing about 5m away. For all that tough talk Chicago gangsta boys sure can run.

Geto Boys said it right:

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta-ass nigga plays his cards right
A real gangsta-ass nigga never runs his f*ckin mouth
'cause real gangsta-ass niggas don't start fights

convex   
19 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

I like your attitude, do u find that these hooligans back down when they know u can fight?

Most of the bigots are drunk and won't fight you, they just want to scare you and see you run. Power in numbers thing, but if you make it clear that one will definately go down. In general, if you step up to people around here, they'll usually back down pretty quick. The Muay Thai and Krav Maga guys at decent schools seem pretty laid back (as far as being racists).
convex   
17 Apr 2011
Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]

On to my on going work in progress! Told you I have a balcony that I smoke on, well on that balcony is a shelf (will show a picture at the bottom) I decided I want to make that shelf my "Beverage Center" I have some more work to do but here is a pic what what it looks like so far. Still need to add the wine and more spirits but, it is starting to look better!

Just make sure that it's not observable :) I used the balcony as a big fridge too.
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

My feeling is that it would have got a lot worse.

The insurgents were already pushed to nearly being toppled. Ghaddafi would have played the people against them (he had already started). That's what was going on. Now it's a deadlock. Perpetual war.

That's the dilemma, isn't it. Gaddafi's gold reserves mean he called the shots at the AU. But when to intervene or not. I don't think it can have been an easy decision to get involved, but the oil in LIbya is too strategically important to leave anything to chance.

The oil flows regardless of who's in power.
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Exactly. And we don't want huge loss of life and even bigger military spending if it all gets worse.

What would have happened if there wasn't a no-fly zone and NATO bombing ground targets? The uprising would have ended a long time ago.

Same difference really. A stitch in time saves nine.

I guess, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Chechnya... Should NATO bomb Belarus? Israel? Syria? Iran? It's an act of aggression against a sovereign nation. This is AU territory. NATO shouldn't have gotten involved. ZA and Morocco have enough resources to enforce a no-fly zone.
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

NATO is not an offensive treaty, never was. The command structure is just being used to manage the attack. Countries can still disagree on attacking sovereign nations. If Poland decided to bomb Bahrain or Yemen, do you think the UK would come along? Probably not as the ground attack Typhoons are already overstretched as is. Poland doesn't have the money for an offensive war...neither does the UK or the US for that matter. Why should they get involved if no NATO member was attacked?
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Read the treaty, as BB said, which NATO member is under attack? As for civilians getting slaughtered, it's a tribal civil war.

Against whom? Poltergeist maybe?

Against anyone that decides to attack a member of the treaty. Whether that's Russia, Libya, Iran, China, Vanuatu...

Humanitarian actions...

Saved a lot of lives in Bosnia when the Serbs were slaughtering civilians. Kill the soldiers that are killing civilians is the logic behind it.
convex   
14 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

I see now that You are ignorant as far as european law is concerned. You don`t see the difference between international law and european law.

The discussion was EU law and Polish obligations under it.

Poland is in NATO no?

NATO is a defense treaty. The attack on Libya is just being coordinated through the NATO command structure.
convex   
14 Apr 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Carefully re-read Julian Tuwim's story as quoted by Strzyga above, and then tell me where exacty in it you see the classy, scholarly, and scientific application of German loanwords.

Szlafrok, the pinnacle of sophistication.
convex   
13 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Right. But YOU CANT say that we should accept refugees coz we are in EU. The law of EU is not a source for accepting refugees.
We sign up some contracts, our law is compatible with international conventions, and we will obey this LAW.

Poland already signed up for it. The time for opt-outs was a while back. That's kind of the idea behind the EU, cede an amount of sovereignty in exchange for other benefits.
convex   
12 Apr 2011
News / Zloty exchange rates - is this just speculation? [87]

Against the dollar its (£) at an 18month high, driven by speculation of an interest rate rise, which with todays lower than expected inflation figures (interest rate rise less likely) means the pound will go down.

The Euro, and most other currencies, are at near yearly highs against the dollar...CHF, JPY, AUD, CAD.

The Zloty hasn't moved much against the other major currencies.