News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


I don't deny Germany its gas even if it comes from Russia - the thing is it would have been cheaper (as much as ten times cheaper) to build another stretch of pipeline through Baltic States and Poland - yet Germany chose to strike a deal with Russia and build Nord Stream against the very interest of Poland - if it wasn't the case Poland would not seek to buy gas from Norway, USA or Katar

- why am I supposed to trust someone who doesn't trust me

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

you know - solidarity is a two way street - why don't you ask Mr Merkel why she pressed for a gas pipe bypassing Poland and the Baltic states - why did Germany want to press the immingrant quotas on Poland then - realpolitik?

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


the European treaties give the member states the right to organize their judiciaries - that's one

two - Polish constitution states that the organization of the Supreme Court is defined by a parliament bill - and PiS just changed the bill simples - judges were bound to retire by previous laws as well - PiS just changed the retirement age

any more examples?


PiS was not forced to withdraw it - but realised that it was a fight too much for one year - but now judges went for a counteroffensive which can lead to judiciary anarchy in Poland

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


please remind me - you said they broke the law a couple of times - it must be easy to name all of them

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

I have long ago resigned to the fact that I'm ugly :P

also you try do detract from the gist of the matter - and the gist of the matter is that PiS is a democratic and democracy respecting party as shown by their past decisions and every sane person is able to determine it

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


as I said - you are an extremist - I call you rabid for simplicity

by the way: what laws did PiS break - please give a couple of examples


maybe PiS will control all institutions - but they are a democratic party and run elections and there is no change to that in sight unless you are rabid or hysterical

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Kaczyński never categorically stated neither for the domestic market nor intentionally (as far as I know) that Poland will press the war reparations issue on Germany - it is very much an issue on a slow burner

Polish public (ok PiS supporters including myself) are no against Germany per se but against the German meddling in Polish affairs or pressurising Poland through EU institutions

- most Polish people are (or maybe were) unaware of the irregularities and pathologies of the previous regimes although they were on the receiving end of what was the outcome of those pathologies

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


no such thing ever happened in the times of PiS government - simples

as far as I know no such thing happened in PRL after Bierut as well


first of all I am all for the American system where judges are elected directly by the public
- secondly when judges are an authority unto themselves this pretty soon leads to the rule of lawyers (as manifested to some degree in Poland) - I bet you understand that the rule of lawyers is not democracy

- also the European Union Tribunal (or whaterver it is called) is appointed by politician who currently rule in the countries in respect (for a term of course, however) - do you have qualms with that? - also PiS is by no means a totalitarian power but a democracy abiding party - if they behave like bullies they will be punished in the first election

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

you are actually the only member of this forum who calls the PiS goverment criminal - this is why I call you rabid

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

@Weimarer

to my understanding PiS (or namely Kaczyński) try to use war reparation demands as a deterring tool against the forays of Germany into our internal matters (if this was a true will of Kaczyński Poland would officially demand the reparations by now) - but I guess it can backfire badly - it is also playing into the widespread Polish sentiment so in a way it is a tool of internal politics of Poland

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


can you see martial law looming? I don't - but I understand rabid or hysterical people have their imaginations slightly off

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


do you realize that the rabidness of the likes of you can lead to a civil war?

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


how is the government actually breaking the law

Work / Photography Jobs in Poland? [5]

once you get married to a Polish citizen you are allowed to work in Poland but immigration services would check if you both live together as far as I know ( they do it in order to fight sham marriages)

Work / Photography Jobs in Poland? [5]


as far as I know you have to be employed by someone to get a Karta Pobytu (residence card) if you are not a EU-citizen (or be a spouse of someone who is Polish or allowed residence in Poland

- some countries allow residence for investors bringing in money to the host country but a quick search in Polish didn't find any such method for Poland -

edit: one source actually quotes that residence can be granted to a person who wants to run business in Poland but it didn't state any details

found a webpage with a little more details but I'm too lazy to translate it right now: udsc.gov.pl/cudzoziemcy/obywatele-panstw-trzecich/chce-przedluzyc-swoj-pobyt-w-polsce/zezwolenie-na-pobyt-czasowy/dzialalnosc-gospodarcza/

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]


English is the most to the point language in the world - and if someone says American English is ugly i just shake my head in disbelief

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


good question

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


you don't see no harm and I see a huge cost - who is going to splash it out?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


maybe I am an idiot but to my mind unbridled liberalism destroys itself unless there are technological breakthroughs that reshape the economy

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Ukranians in Poland are gastarbeiters not refugees (by a humongous majority)

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


some people in the countryside use LPG installations for heating - but LPG is more than 60 per cent expensive than coal heating (although it obviously clean and requires little attention) - LNG (methane) is cheaper than LPG but a bit more expensive than coal - also most cities and towns are connected to LNG grid so you don't need a gas tank

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I appreciate that you care johnny but I sort of have my heating sorted for the time being - so for now thanks, but no

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I don't know, maybe they use some other electric phenomenon that I don't know of because regular electric heater use electric resistence as the source of heat and this just simply costs too much


just looked up Sunheat website - they claim their heaters operate on infrared radiation - maybe it is a cheaper way of heating with electricity

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I don't know what is smarter in the long run - what I know is that with current technology it is pretty expensive and probably not economic to store electric energy so you cannot have just solar panels as your energy source (think night) - although I heard that IBM has recently achieved a breakthrough with battery technology which sounds promising but as far as I know it is not in the commercial phase as yet.


I just don't have the money - you know sometimes even taking a credit for a thing you desire is too expensive

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


you have to have this money in the first place - also you have to have a suitable location for the panels

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I don't have respiratory issues :) :P

electric heating is the most expensive (more than twice as expensive) in Poland (unless you inherited a sizeable set of photovoltaics, i mean solar panels)

Language / What is your biggest problem with Polish language? [158]

Polish language is illogical and obscures the reality

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]


I want my coal unless you provide me with equally cheap alternative - the simple thing is coal is the cheapest way to heat your home in Poland - even the LNG heating is more expensive not mentioning the prohibitive cost of such installations if you are not in the reach of LNG grid - I have no reason to care for smog because I live in a forest - so while I agree that there are areas where smog is an issue and they surely have to consider ways of dealing with the issue I cannot be even asked to have a 20 000 PLN LNG installation in my home because I simply don't have the 20 000


ok I checked the going prices - and LNG installation costs about 7 000 PLN - which doesn't change the fact that I don't have it - so unless there is an overall ban on coal in this country or there is a program of significant subsidies I won't be having and LNG installation any time soon

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In Polish 'w' is pronounced as English 'v' (in the same manner as 'w' in German)

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

here - Germans are opening new coal powered power plant in Ruhr Gebiet : -

reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-germany-coal-uniper/unipers-datteln-4-coal-fired-power-plant-will-be-connected-to-grid-conservative-idUSKBN1ZF0LL

- it transpires that German coal is clean as opposed to Polish coal