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peterweg   
3 Mar 2014
News / Is this the first clear and open signal that Poland makes preparations for war with Russia? [163]

Raising a Russian flag over Ukrainian territoriality is violating its borders.

Sending Russian troops to occupy Ukrainian land is the UN recognized definition of war and Ukraine is legally entitled to used any military means to eject them.

Well maybe the new commonwealth will be every Slavic country joining NATO it defend itself against the Russian Empire. Which side are you on Crow, can you honestly side with the Russians invading their allies?

There is going to a solid result of all this, probably involving a new arms buildup and nuclear missiles based in Poland aimed right at those lovely Russians
peterweg   
3 Mar 2014
News / Is this the first clear and open signal that Poland makes preparations for war with Russia? [163]

There is nothing in any reassurances or guarantees that support a coup; recognising an illegal government that includes fascist anti semites is no guarantee of Ukrainian neutrality.

Indeed ... so why did you mention it? Ukraines internal politics or opinions are a matter for its population to decided.

UK, USA and Russia guaranteed its borders
peterweg   
26 Jan 2014
News / Poland's economic future? [294]

That coal can easily be transformed into methanol

Not easy, economic or clean. Germany did in WW2 out of total desperation.

a joke as have many pf the road building projects

They joke is on the construction companies who underbid and bankrupted themselves when the Polish government demanded them stick to the contract.

I think taxpayers everywhere will admire Poland for it, even though its possible self defeating.
peterweg   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

A shame that there are restrictions on doing business though. It hurts people doing crap jobs in the service industries and retail.

Public holidays are compulsory, if they weren't they scumbag employers would force workers to work. wouldn't fit the definition of a public holiday then would it?

Angry - you bet.

Incredibly stupid, more like.

You CHOOSE to come to a country that is very religious and wont to put religion first.
peterweg   
11 Dec 2013
USA, Canada / I embrace the term "Polak" or "Pollack" in the US [33]

my own people not the cowards and cop callers in America

Calling the cops is normal. If you have to depend on nobody calling the cops, you are going to get screwed. You better leave the USA, but don't expect Poland to be a lawless thugs paradise, Poles will call the cops because they are growing up.
peterweg   
8 Dec 2013
Food / Are eggs in Poland refrigerated/not refrigerated? [33]

The Mail, as ever, is full of ********.

The American websites make the correct call; if your eggs are treated to be stored in the fridge (i.e. the USA) keep them in the fridge.

For us Europeans, you do not have to keep them in the fridge and its probably best not to.
peterweg   
5 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

Can anyone be kept for 48 hours without charge?
That's ridiculous.

Why too long? too short? In the UK is up to 96 hours without charge. For terror suspects its 14 days (Lazio fans have been suspected of terrorist offenses in the past and they are neo-Nazi). Asylum seekers can spend years in detention.

gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-held-in-custody

In the USA you can be arrest, spirited away and deported to a third country without any notification of anyone. Over stay your visa and its straight to jail for days, weeks or months without trial.
peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Food / Are eggs in Poland refrigerated/not refrigerated? [33]

I think an average person gets salmonella poisoning much more often then we think. I bet most of the cases of what we call stomach virus may be salmonella related.

I doubt it, salmonella is like death, I know I had it. Never felt as bad before or since.

Some of the small grocery stores do indeed refrigerate their eggs here, as their turnover is slower than the big shops'.

Which is illegal.

Double reason not to buy eggs there, old and becoming contaminated when taken out of the fridge.
peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Work / IT Jobs in Poland? [30]

Quite possible, but we should remember HP is not doing as well as it did 10years ago.

The US-based firm - which remains the world's biggest maker of PCs

PC market staging a RECOVERY. (Only joking, it's through the floor)
No mercy, no let-up.... It is down, down, down until 2017

IDC is forecasting that the technology channel will buy in around 34 million fewer PCs this year than last, and the bad news for anyone making a crust in that sector is that things aren't going to improve any time soon

channelregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/global_pc_market_forecast
peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

You understand attempted, murder, rape, going equipped for a crime, planning a terrorsit attack, association with criminal gangs are all jail-able offenses

Football hooligans are treated even more harshly

A person will have been convicted of some offence, perhaps shoving a rival fan, or swearing at a steward, and they may then find themselves banned from attending their team's matches, have to hand their passport to the police whenever England play abroad, and have to report to a police station regularly. If you forget to hand your passport in, arrest soon follows. There are of course going to be circumstances where these measures might be appropriate. I have prosecuted cases in which police have been seriously assaulted while dealing with large, drunken groups of spectators - although the violence isn't always one way.

theguardian/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jun/17/football-hooliganism-laws
peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

You don't arrest let alone charge people as a preemptive measure. It goes against all concepts of justice.

Yes they do, that the law.
peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

You can't arrest people for what you imagine they might do.

Yes you can. You have no idea what you are talking about.

The police doesn't have to prove to you the guilt or not of the fans, they have to prove it to a judge.

If you don't like the laws and how they are applied, tough ****.
peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Food / Are eggs in Poland refrigerated/not refrigerated? [33]

But it's important to keep in mind that the strain of salmonella in Europe that killed a bunch of chickens and caused the UK vaccinations has not reached US. Yet.

Whats so good about the US strain of salmonella that 150,000 Americans get each year? Doesn't it make you ill or kill people?

That number is 120 times the number in the UK (per person).

Which do you prefer, the UK egg production method without refrigeration, with each egg individually date and time stamped, printed with an identification number showing where it was produced - or good all fashioned AMERICAN salmonella?

I think making every egg traceable back to the farmer was a bigg step towards the eradication of salmonella. If the flock is infected its quickly slaughtered.

Lion Mark

If America was just like Europe what would be the point of moving from Europe. Refrigerate your Eggs!

Only about one-third of farmers here choose to inoculate their flocks. Farmers cite cost as the main reason not to opt for vaccination -FDA estimates say it would cost about 14 cents a bird. The average hen produces about 260 eggs over the course of her lifetime.

Without the assurance that American egg-laying hens have been vaccinated against salmonella, it's prudent to store our eggs in the fridge, just in case.

peterweg   
4 Dec 2013
Food / Are eggs in Poland refrigerated/not refrigerated? [33]

My brothers wife family were commercial egg producers, they said eggs should not be refrigerated. Room temp is best. UK shops sell eggs at ambient temperatures.

Salmonella attributed to eggs in the UK has gone down to 250 per year since the 2009 figure quoted.

What is interesting is that other foods are now much more risky. Rice is very dangerous(!!) becuase there is a bacteria not killed by boiling which spores after cooking, so should be refrigerated even before its cold.
peterweg   
2 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

And the Polish police must be pretty pathetic if they feel threatened by small kitchen knives.

A man hacked off the head of Lee Rigby with a kitchen knife

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10488529/Lee-Rigby-killers-drove-around-Woolwich-barracks-looking-for-soldiers-to-kill-court-hears.html

Beheading is a flesh wound to you, right?
peterweg   
2 Dec 2013
News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

MEADS is a completely different system, however its designed to control any missile type which could include the SM-3, if they were under Polish military control (which they won't be).
peterweg   
2 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

And if you don't do any of the above, do you lose all your rights as well?

If you are in a group where someone commits a crime, the entire group can be guilty of that crime. Thats the law in many countries, including the UK (last man to hang was in police custody when his partner killed a policeman)

So yes, you will lose your right although your only 'crime' is to be part of a neo-Nazi, terrorist, criminal gang.
peterweg   
2 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

I'd like to see the evidence of their having done anything wrong.

Nothing conclusive has been filmed or photographed.

There must have been scores of photographers in Warsaw looking for some great action pictures.

I'm sure that if you would have been stabbed repeatedly in your guts with a small kitchen knife you would just laugh it off.

I most probably would.

The rest of the world takes a different view that rioting gangs armed with knives, axes and throwing stones can be collectively punished in the harshest manner.

If the police had shot dead a few of these thugs I'd laugh about it, so we do have something in common - humour .

Go to a foreign country and commit a violent crime and you lose all rights.
peterweg   
2 Dec 2013
News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

Poland may well join the development (with Germany and Italy) and production of MEADS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Extended_Air_Defense_System

It will cost $3-4 billion but would give a mobile defense network against aircraft, and missiles (including ballistic). That will stop the Russians in their path.

Going to spend $8.4billion in total. nti.org/gsn/article/poland-may-spend-much-84-billion-a ir-and-missile-defenses/
peterweg   
30 Nov 2013
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

What is the source of your figure, please?

Polish Government statistics website.

There was a thread about the cost of living comparing the number of items (bread, milk, petrol etc) you could buy in 2003 and now. The figure and source is there.