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SeanBM   
7 Jan 2010
News / Recent Polish Scientific Discoveries... (Scientific News) [19]

Finally a thread worth to post something :) Thank you Sean,

I just thought a change from the normal threads might be nice for a change.

Poland has the most efficient supercomputer in energy consumption according to green500.org.

I know very little about computers so I googled and youtubed it and got these.
I don't know what it does but it looks impressive :)

Superkomputer Galera

youtu.be/oFSdz8Nnrkg

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galera_%28superkomputer%29

And also

Professor Sylwester Porowski's group managed to beat the world's foremost scientific institutes in the race to produce the blue laser.

(The blue laser has)four times more information than before can be packed on optic disks, which means that in future CD-ROM disks will be able to hold much more data than they do now with the red lasers used to record and read information.

poland.gov.pl/Recent,achievements,494.html
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Dear mods or Admin,

Just to clarify, I originally titled the thread 'Poland and Science', admittedly not the most gripping of titles but it was supposed to encompass more than just this bit of news.

The thread title was changed to:
A big anthropological discovery in Poland.
It is in fact a Paleontological discovery not anthropological one.

So perhaps the mods would be so kind as to change the title to "Polish Scientific Discoveries" or "What Poland has done to expand knowledge" or "Bikini Tetrapods gone wild", please.
SeanBM   
7 Jan 2010
News / Recent Polish Scientific Discoveries... (Scientific News) [19]

So this thread is anything roughly based on 'Poland and Science', as there is nothing on science on this site, that I can find.

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life history

Here we present well-preserved and securely dated tetrapod tracks from Polish marine tidal flat sediments of early Middle Devonian (Eifelian stage) age that are approximately 18 million years older than the earliest tetrapod body fossils and 10 million years earlier than the oldest elpistostegids. They force a radical reassessment of the timing, ecology and environmental setting of the fish-tetrapod transition, as well as the completeness of the body fossil record.

You can find the article here: nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7277/full/nature08623.html#top - Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland

Walking with Tetrapods : by Nature Video

youtu.be/YgGwBm4HI8Q

Please feel free to contribute to this thread about anything related to Poland and Science.
SeanBM   
6 Jan 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Na zdrowie!

Sounds like you drank that edition :)

'Heroes and Villains of 2009'

Sounds like a comic book, I look forward to it.
SeanBM   
6 Jan 2010
Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]

Hello Ania, That is a big move, you must be very excited.

I found this on the net Polish expatriates in India and Polacy w Indiach.
Also you could contact the Polish Embassy in India and even the Indian Embassy in Poland as they should know people in the same place as you will be in and might even organise get togethers. I hope that helps.

Best of luck!
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Do you know by whom?

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Wiki), he is better known as Witkacy.
I was talking to an Architect friend of mine and he was saying that Witkacy put together the existing mountain style, that it was there already, Witkacy just popularised it.

Nope. One figure resembles somebody. Who?

AH! that looks like John Paul The Second.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Life / Are Poles winter lovers? [63]

But I had to, that's why they call them peugeot boxer vans, isn't it?
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Life / Are Poles winter lovers? [63]

I had a nightmare trying to bring a load of wood in a two wheel drive peugeot boxer van up the mountain here.
I then got stuck in mud on the steep slope, had to unload it there in the cold dark over the weekend.

I like Snow though, I wrote about it here

just love to go out and play in the snow...

All the kids around here (and some of the bigger kids;) go down the carpark for handbreakers and fun!

they went to a childrens home in Lobez Poland.

Nice one, WildRover.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Real Estate / Is there a Real Estate bubble in Krakow? [60]

(Stats according to GUS 2004)

COMPLETELY made up by you.

He does give the source of his statement.

We examplined all costs into building,
and total cost NEVER surpassed 1000 PLN/sq.m. built.

That is not true.

Another straight lie. Construction materials - for example iron and steel
last year have been going 4 times DOWN in price because of crisis.

Prove it.

So you don't do it even with your own money Avalon?

And you say you have been in construction, do me a favour and stop lying.

That's newspapers are full of situations / sitraight scams when developers
like you took the money from clients for a paper project, and then the "project"
went bankrupt... leaving only cheated banks and clients...

I have met Avalon and seen one of his projects and I can tell you that he is an upstanding gentleman who is incapable of your slanderous accusation.

Moderators should ban you from writing such crap over and over again.

Really this only applies to you.

I have spent most of my whole working life in construction

That is the biggest lie you have told about yourself yet.
SeanBM   
4 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

I asked WB to merge my thread with yours, i'll post more pics in yours if its OK with you.

Any time :)

The other best thing about Zamosc is the beer: the best beer from the best brewing region in Poland.

You have my undivided attention, I will look it up immediately, if not sooner :)

Edit*

Twierdza_zamoscplan

Zamość Fortress

(Wiki)

It looks like Nicosia in Cyprus... I think that might have already been in the other thread...Here
SeanBM   
3 Jan 2010
Life / Polish Film World and Poland Movie Reviews [30]

It seems to be well received so far, with good reviews, "AThe best Polish film since the 1980's " but they do say that every now and again, it doesn't make it true.

I have not seen it yet, I suppose the proof of the pudding is in the eating.it yet

Looks like a black comedy woman's fantasy from the trailers.
...
SeanBM   
3 Jan 2010
Food / Turkey for New Year's dinner in Poland? [29]

Noooooo we Brits have our birds on Christmas day , its the USA that have the thanksgiving dinner...

This year i had a cup of soup and some bread for Christmas dinner , but i did have some nice Russian chocs and biscuits that had been sent from Moscow by my lady...

She was horrified at my Christmas dinner choice , and threatens next year will be very different....she will be living in my farm by then....oh boy do i have some spring cleaning to do...!

Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!
Not Christmas dinner but New Years!
Check the title of the thread, it is not about Christmas or thanks giving it is about New Years.
How you Brits ever managed to have an Empire is completely beyond me :p

Turkey

Turkey has always been a common dish here in Poland, you can find it on most menus, you always could.
As your song suggests.
SeanBM   
3 Jan 2010
Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

whats there point of studying for years and getting a degree

Yeah! what's the point in reading them there book things!
Burn your local library, all that brain stress is bad for you, I am sure!
:)

you can not get a job in poland

There are jobs here, 9.4% unemployed in the U.S, 11% in Poland.

i never been to polish school

It shows.
SeanBM   
3 Jan 2010
Food / Turkey for New Year's dinner in Poland? [29]

I have not heard of any Poles that i know having turkey , and the shops are certainly not full of birds for sale....

Nor have I.

I must confess i would prefer a Turkey or chicken to the traditional carp , but then i am a Brit... Its likely the younger Poles who have aquired a taste for birds in the UK or USA may slowly introduce the idea to Poland , but i think most Poles will stick to the traditional carp...

New Year's dinner not Christmas, geez, you really are a Brit :p
SeanBM   
1 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

lets focus only on these two instant pictures of now.

You should start a thread about those two pictures, then you can tell us all how it should be.
This topic is about "Life in communism vs democracy in Poland".
If you have nothing to add to this topic, make a new one so we can learn from you or not.
SeanBM   
1 Jan 2010
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

It is something I am familiar from my university years, there were so called socialist groups who can only repeat same words without trying to learn or analyze anything.

I think that is it exactly.
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

What was the exchange rate at the time?

This talk of money made me think of that funny/ironic youtube link that you posted awhile ago about money or banks. i think it was you anyway...

Robert Rosenberg got 50 milenkas just in the summer of 1978

He was born 1975, so he was 3.
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

Communist girls were more intellectuals.And had more hair on their thighs.What an era.

Did many turn up in your Southern Greece dreams?
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

I think you missed my point.
I like the barter system but it is impractical and you still have to "make up" a trade offer (your point about artificial), 2 sheep = a 1000 cabbages.

Those 1000 cabbages have to be stored or they'll go bad, so we use a representative.
Also the more of any thing the less it is worth, if everyone in your village has a thousand cabbages, the cabbage is worthless, it is the same for money, hence hyperinflation.

And logistically speaking it is impractical to lug all your possessions to the market place with you.
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

The cabbage is actually the thing with value, not the money.

The money is a representative of the cabbage.
It is easier for us to believe that 3 Zloty is equal to one cabbage.
So I can carry 300 Zloty on me and not three hundred cabbages.
Or a ship etc...
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

Money has value as long as people are using it to pay for goods and services.

It has happened before here in Poland, it doesn't work.
So everyone has millions, a shop keeper wanting to sell a cabbage has now bids for his cabbage because everyone can afford it, money becomes worthless.

Poland went through inflation (second time) between 1989 and 1991. The highest denomination in 1989 was 200,000 zlotych. It was 1,000,000 zlotych in 1991 and 2,000,000 zlotych in 1992; the exchange rate was 9500 zlotych for 1 US dollar in January 1990 and 19600 zlotych at the end of August 1992. In the 1994 currency reform, 1 new zloty was exchanged for 10,000 old zlotych and 1 US$ exchange rate was ca. 2.5 zlotych (new).
Previously, between 1922 and 1924, Polish inflation reached 275% and exchange rate in 1923 was 6,375,000 Polish marka (mkp) for 1 US dollar (...)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation+poland+hyperinflation
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

why don't you make a poll?

here? i know idiots will win

Welcome to democracy :) hahahaha.

Now...what are you going to do with these millions of "idiots"? Re-education Gulags???
Or an easy shot in the neck?

Siberia is nice this time of year for those.

This is all very fun but seriously folks, I think Poland is much better off having democracy rather than being a puppet communist country for the U.S.S.R.

Edit*

I can't provide a link to my brain because it isn't online. Think about it. Concepts like "hyperinflation" were invented as roadblocks to oppress people. Observation is enough proof of that!

I am only asking for you to backup your statement.
Perhaps you could expand upon your idea and we could have a sensible discussion.

It has happened before here in Poland, it doesn't work.
So everyone has millions, a shop keeper wanting to sell a cabbage has now a bid for his cabbage because everyone can afford it.
SeanBM   
31 Dec 2009
History / Life in communism vs democracy in Poland [234]

happiness of polish people about their own economies?

In comparison to communism, Poland has a healthier economy now.

ps: about cuban medicine.. google and or ask any medicine doctor around world. if you still dont believe, catch some illnesses and you will have to learn cuban medicine then.

So, in other words you have no back up, well that doesn't surprise.

Just where the heck are you from? You have not been to Poland or Cuba by the sounds of it.