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gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

gumishu:
heard recently that around 50 per cent of Polish businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy

Where did you get that from?

just heard it somewhere on TV I guess - even if I read it on the internet I don't always save such links - maybe I got something wrong here
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

Try to build a house in Belgium without an effort to save energy and you you get huge fines.

isin't the in the best interest of the owner to have an energy efficient house - why haunt people with regulation to do that
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

We are not talking about this one, are we ... ?

hmm is he not good enough to write about politics?
how do you actually judge it ?
he's a columnist in Rzeczpospolita - I don't buy newspapers but you can read a lot by Ziemkiewicz in Rzeczpospolita online edition (rp.pl - the site is often pretty slow to load but does load in the end)
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

I don't know the exact data but heard recently that around 50 per cent of Polish businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy (you can image most of these are small businesses but still)- I hope many of these people can go to Germany to find work

edit: also Polish debt grows dramatically
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

well then why the amount of tax collected fell more than 10 per cent between 2008 and 2009 (these are official figures - but you would need to look for it in Polish i guess - but have a go at trying to search for that in English)

edit: btw you wouldn't hear about it from the mainstream media - you need to read Rafał Ziemkiewicz for example to find out
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

Sorry, I dunno how else you can interprete the figures I gave you *but* to show the economy has grown, year after year after year. You are just acting as a spoiled little kid who wants his way. Well, sorry to disappoint you ... the stats speak for themselves. Accept it.

well Stu - if Polish economy is growing why the amount of tax collected fell more than 10 per cent between 2008 and 2009
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What does Poland Import? [18]

Poland imports almost all oil it needs and the greatest part of the natural gas it consumes (among many other things)
gumishu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

a Ukrainian girl once (middle 90's) worked for my family on a strawberry plantation (a small one) and she slept at our place (she was quite pretty - amazing blonde hair) - I wasn't there for the most part as I have been studying - still I remember her saying she preferred Czech TV to Polish cause she could understand it better (we live not far from the Czech border and the Czech TV reception is brilliant as they have their transmitters atop of the mountain ranges on the border - you can even have decent enough Czecz TV reception as far as Wrocław - I used to watch a lot of Czech TV before)
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

I wonder why - makes little sense.

because Poland is riddled with Russian agents of influence and maybe even Mr Pawlak is one - it is just a thing to consider - someone almost anecdotically mentioned in some newspaper about the negatiotions with the Russians - he was so surprised how well Russians knew the realities of Polish industry including gas cosumption

Poland Johnny is like surprise surprise everywhere - this country could have strategically built a pipeline to Norway gas fields and it failed to for 20 years - makes you wonder some people in Poland don't actually play in Polish team

what I can easily imagine is Russians have some papers on Wałęsa for example and many many others who could have went corrupt this or that way - say the Russians have some papers on Waldemar Pawlak and threatened him they will reveal it?
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

you see Johnny Poland has one of the cheapest electric power in Europe -

(but this can change soon because of European agreements that are very unfavorable to us - and Tusk has done little to avert it - btw Tusk government also struck a long-term deal with Gazprom which makes us pay the highest prices for natural gas in Europe - even many in the government were very much against it - it was eventuallly signed recently with little publicity - this is one nice indication of how most media in Poland are allied to the PO)

- but we don't not have too much of a margin - shutting Bełchatów may lead to power shortages simply

sorry for a too long thrown-in thoughts ;)

btw as far as I know Bełchatów won't shut any time soon - a new coal field is just being developed next to the one that is getting depleted (the new one's gonna be smaller however)
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

well I am not that hundred per cent sure - storing waste is pretty complicated - in Poland it would require creating an entirely new salt mine in a salt dome I gather (and that's not a cheap thing to do) - what I am pretty sure of is nuclear lobby would want us to think it is so cheap and easy - I am not entirely against nuclear power I just think it should be well thought over

Yes useless and a fourth-rate option: to get any decent level of heat off it you need too much raw product.

yes let's just shut down Bełchatów right now - it is so useless :P - I am not against wind power but it won't consist 20 per cent of power production in many years in Poland - geothermal is even more expensive to develope and I wouldn't be surprised if actually European Commission would try to block many geothermal projects here - just as it destroyed Polish ship-building industry allowing subsidies in Germany and France at the same time
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

yeah useless - it just powers your copmuter - pffff nothing to be bothered with after all - and you probably think nuclear or natural gas energy generating is cheaper than that based on coal - as for brown coal the biggest power plant in this country is powered with it - sure useless
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

I don't think Poland should give up on coal - it should actually defend its coal-based industry which the Tusk government does not seem to do in Europe - and were gonna pay for this sometime after 2012
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

I once read that a big wind turbine only pays itself after 20 years or so and then it is ripe for replacement ie it is worn enough mechanically

beautiful in their way and very, very clean.

they may not emit fumes but some tend to emit very unpleasant noise - heard some people living next to a couple of wind turbines and being haunted by the noise
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

The same with the Bohemians: a friend of my was once appalled in Prague when they could not understand at the reception desk of a hotel that he was born in 'październik'; I happened to witness his "Anmeldung", so I told them "october" and everything became clear.

it's not that the Czechs have German month names - their month names are purely Slavic just different to ours (most) (and we have international maj (May) for example while the Czech counterpart of Maj is Kveten ) - the only month name that is the same in Polish and Czech is sierpień/srpen as far as I can remember - your 'oktober' helped your friend mainly because knowledge of German was (and I guess still is) very common among Czechs (I guess they taught German much more than in Poland)
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
Language / It's just semantics! - in Polish or otherwise [15]

On the other hand 'logistyka/logistyczny' has made quite a career; but doesn't it mean anything more than the "simplistic" planowanie?

logistyka doesn't have an exact counterpart in Polish (it combines a couple of concepts easily worded in Polish) - still I think it tends to be overused due to people/businesses wanting to seem modern and international
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

this is to some extent a heritage of the past i think - Latin was so valued back in 17th and 18th century that it was actually the core of education
gumishu   
13 Apr 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

AFAIK there are lots of German borrowings

there are multiple older technical terms of German origin (even more in colloquial speech - my grandpa used a lot of German terms connected with builder's trade - not too many people use the term wasserwaga these days :)) - there is less newer German borrowings
gumishu   
9 Apr 2011
Language / Do I have these Polish word cases right? [16]

ona włoźię bukiet na cięty kwiaty na stół.

but the grammer is wrong you will now say, so what is the secret or tool to help correct this.

the word order is perfectly fine - some grammar is not -
and the English 'of' preposition does not usually get translated in the form of a seperate word (as you have translated it into 'na' word) but influences the shape of Polish words it relates to in an English phrase - the 'of' preposition typically holds a notion that is outpictured by Polish 'genetive case' for nouns and adjectives (and pronouns - pronouns are words like mine, his, him, it, that etc)

postawiła na stół bukiet ciętych róź.

the thing is 'postawiła bukiet ciętych róż na stół'- a completely English word order - is completely fine in Polish - perhaps it may not be the choice of order by most natives (without need for highlighting specific nuances of the meaning) but is an perfectly understandable just as the originally quoted sentence

A SECRET TOOL? - there's no such - it just needs a lot of learning i.e. some effort - actually using the language you learn in practice is best adviseable - practice makes you perfect and such :) - and you just need to get used that some (plenty of :) things are completely different to your preconceived notions in this new language you learn and you need to get used to them to get around the language (like this little thing that you don't get a translation of a word 'of' in Polish but a translation into a different grammatical concept )

or maybe there is a SECRET TOOL - that is not to try to learn too much at a time instead intensively working (from various approaches) on some well-defined subject (and then returning to it- like revisiting it - after some time)
gumishu   
21 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]

Redzina I think is from Russian they invented soil science.

Redzina or rendzina can't possibly be Russian because Russian doesn't have nasal vowels nor the 'dz' sound
gumishu   
19 Mar 2011
News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

I only hope the waste and pollution stays in Poland and doesn't cross borders...

Did Eastern Germany bother when they burned billions of tons of lignite in their power plants if the sulfur oxides and other toxic stuff crossed the border to Poland? I bet you know prevailing winds in our part of the world are those from the west
gumishu   
18 Mar 2011
News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]

Yeah? Do you claim to know what was going on at the time?

sorry but it is well established by science that Slavs moved west and south starting 6th century starting from around middle run of Dniepr river - it is attested by archeological cultures and by early ancient geographies
gumishu   
18 Mar 2011
News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]

Fix your own country first, don't bring that backwards corrupted thinking here to the United States.

what kind of corrupt thinking do you mean - btw have Americans themselves fixed their country yet? I thought it has been pretty messy lately