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cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
Work / Is it difficult to make a living playing Soccer (football) in Poland? [54]

If you havent played semi pro in England i think that would be difficult to get amything in Poland worth more than a few hundred zloty a game.

Think my Dad played for Dunstable for a few games a long time ago ! He was in a few non league teams round there.

Why not try and get a coaching badge and get work at a summer camp for kids ? Dont know if that is feasible but its more realistic than playing pro
cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

But what if someone is coming from Pakistan on holiday ?

There are some vaccines only adminstered when the kid is older - what if you need to travel in the meantime ( i had my TB jab when i was about 13 and yes i travelled before then)

What is the magic percentage below which this heard immunity does not work ? If it is 90 percent then is the 91st person ok but the 89th a child abusing murderer ? Any really clear statisitcs on herd immunity with undeniable results ?

Is state education compulsory ? Of course it is in almost every country - but some remote risks are deemed more important than that principle ?

What if a new vaccine is invented - in Poland would you retrospectively jab 6 million kids ? If not then wont this herd immunity thing be useless ?

Again - what jf major doubts are being raised about a treatment ? Should parents carry on regardless ?

There is little coherence to the mandatory vaccination argument - it seems more to come from a platform of posiions in the liberal press.

My problem is not ith vaccinations but by the insistence that the state knows better than parents and that the medical professions views are both settled and infallible.
cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

So would mandatory vaccinations extend to forcing it, probably with violence, onto Amish or others with genuine religious objections ?

Would you prevent unvaccinated children e.g. from Pakistan, Nigeria or Iraq entering the country?

Would you prevent children below the vaccination age from travelling to other countries where vaccination is not in force?

The black-and-white view simply cannot apply in every circumstance.

In fact before all the controversy about the MMR jab started, there were about 8% of kids in Western Europe not vaccinated - I do not remember this causing massive rates of measles, munos and whatever else it is.

Let's also consider what might happen if there was a genuinely controversial drug - like thalidomide- it was not withdrawn overnight, there was a decade-long debate about whether or not it was safe and started obviously from someone questioning the clusters of deformities. If we were in a similar position now would you insist on mandatory vaccination of a drug that was possibly seriously harmful from? Why not tell parents the risks and let them decide?

There are obviously modern diseases which are growing - autism, certain cancers, certain neurological conditions. as I said I have no idea what is causing them, but it will be something that we were previously told was safe - whether its diet, environmental, medical, radioactivity et cetera.
cms neuf   
6 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

I suppose so - though his wife did say the kids were vaccinated a few years later when she had a book to flog about her family.

Being unsure about compulsory vaccination is totally unrelated to supporting homeopathy. Its a cheap argument - I think homoeopathy is nonsense and of course it is not forced on anybody.

The argument about a small number of kids undermining supposed herd immunity is also overblown. At the risk of sounding like Dirk I bet there are probably 50,000 unvaccinated kids from Third World countries wandering around London Paris or Los Angeles. Are their parents also guilty of child abuse and wilful murder?

As IS says the argument is not simply anout vaccines, most of which work, but rather about free will and whether the states right supercedes the parents wishes.
cms neuf   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

It's obviously not a solution to send people to a desert island. If i remember a few years ago when i lived in Britain Blair himself was refusing to confirm that he vaccinated his kids

In fact relgious exemptions for Amish, Jehovahs etc have been quietly tolerated for years until compulsory vaccines became polticized (often by the same people who defend abortion rights on the basis that the state does not own peoples bodies)
cms neuf   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

The issue to me is not whether vaccines are overall good - they are. It is instead whether parents should be forced to vaccinate their kids and the hysterical reaction of calling them criminals and murderers if they decide not to. You can listen to medical science but can someone force you to do stuff just because he wears a white coat and stayed a couple of years longer in college ?

For sure some of the existing vaccines in use will turn out to have serious side effects. That has alwas been the case and new issues will alays crop up with drugs but once billion dollar profits are involved its difficult fo doubts to get a fair hearing. Asbestos and cigarettes were once considered harmless.
cms neuf   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

Why is it a crime to consider that just possibly there might be areas where medicines/vaccines/established science is not correct and there are risks to kids ? Does making your own decision about this really constitute child abuse ? Agree with Kondzior that while they clearly make life better they are not without flaws and potential risks.

There is of course a long history of drugs being withdrawn - even Tacitus says here that vaccines 30 years ago were a lot less safe than now. When I was born it was just after Thalidomide had been withdrawn - but science moved on, too late for the people who had been told it was harmless.

Being sceptical about compulsory vaccines and the huge vested interests that lie behind that is not the same as believing the earth is flat.

I don't know what is behind the huge rise in autism/adhd/aspergers etc but it was a valid exercise to look at all angles - pesticides, vaccines, pollution, radiation etc as such a rapid increase can not only be explained by genetics.
cms neuf   
31 May 2018
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Wow - cant wait to read the rest of your book. How many pages of this insight are there ?
cms neuf   
27 May 2018
News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

A human sewer where the Russian kleptocracy choose to hide their money in Londin and Cyprus and buy houses in Paris and Vienna - ready for the day when the masses rise up and kick them out.

Of course we could leave the EU but we all know it is better than Russian rule - last time we tried that we ended up bankrupt, standing in line to buy shoes and soap and with an industry that was a mass of rusting obsolete equipment.
cms neuf   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Well let's say this - I have never met any Pole Of any political persuasion,either here or in any diaspora who would dismiss Katyn As a drop in the bucket.

I also know a few poles who are pro Russia but none who would take a morning to vigourously defend it and all its 20th and 21st century crimes on the Internet to a bunch of strangers

I know many many Polish Americans, many of whom have a negative view of other immigrants. But I honestly can't think of any of them who would call hard-working people Latino scum - most of them know plenty of Latinos either from work, from the neighbourhood, or from church.

Which means that whatever you are then I don't think that you are really a retired PolAm engineer from Chicago.
cms neuf   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

I cannot prove that unfortunately - it is only backed up by circumstantial evidence

You follow a pattern of Russian trolling that we have seen here already - start off with some innocent posts and quickly move onto spreading race hate, praising Putin, and parroting the Kremlin party line on various contentious issues

You claim to have lived in Poland but no little about this place, have not convinced anybody that you speak Polish, have a bizarre story about forgetting your native tongue despite graduating from University and presumably writing a thesis on it

There are mistakes in your English.

When challenged about specific Russian crimes - e.g. rapes, the Poznan massacre, Communist terror then you excuse all of them - something that a non-Russian wouldn't really do.

So rather let me say this it is my strong suspicion that you are a Russian.

If you are not then I stand corrected

Ps - bit late for your breakfast- five in the afternoon! Maybe you had a heavy night on the vodka
cms neuf   
25 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

That doesnt sound right - i thought carrying a weapon in public is only possible if you can prove you are in danger or are guarding cash delivery. I think you can only use an automatic at a shooting range.

If thats wrong let me know but i have never seen a member of the public carrying a gun here. I also never heard of any concealed carry
cms neuf   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Russia is still executing people without trial - just using various goons and spies to do so. You can google Soviet repression in Poland in the 50s - at its peak there were over 50.000 political prisoners and many executions. A Soviet citizen (Rokossovsky, Marshall of the Soviet Army), was directly installed as defence minister and directly responsible for sending in military units to kill civilians in Poznan.

Given that its Monday morning in Chicago I don't know why you are not doing something pleasant with your retirement - having a stroll along Lake Michigan or ordering some deep pan for later ? Or are you stuck in a dark room in Russia waiting for your next paycheck from the kleptocrats.
cms neuf   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Dunno LDJongh but they might live there because their boss sent them to work there, or because their husband/wife wanted to be near ageing parents, or because they work for their home countrie's govt or because they are on a military posting. I lived in a few countries and it was always driven by personal circumstances rather than meaning I automatically sign up to the ruling classes views on say immigration, closing malls on Sunday, renationalizing business or free media.
cms neuf   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

The bad guys are Russia, and despite your guff about free education communism was an unmitigated disaster for the country.

By the 1980s only Romania was poorer than Poland, people had to queue for basic necessities, there was no petrol, it was difficult to feed your kids, no luxuries unless you are Communist Or unless you had relatives in the richer, more compassionate west to able to help you.

People here are understandably very nervous about Russian interventions in Georgia and Ukraine because they do not want to return to those horrible times.

Are you still pretending to be an American or are you now concentrating all your energies on defending Russian criminality?
cms neuf   
24 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Katyn was only the end of a campaign which started with Russia allying itself withh the Nazis and proceeded in the typical way with rapes, murders, deportations and wanton destruction of Eastern Poland

. You apparantly grew up in 1959s Poland so you knw the ffects of that because you said that you wished ti emigrate. But in acrual fact you grew uo in Russia, hearing tales of the Great Patriotic war (stories which conveninetly left out the rapes and the invaion of smaller neighbors like POland and Finland).
cms neuf   
23 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

I do not know how many people are being killed in U.S.-led wars - probably quite a few. Iraq was certainly an illegal war, Afghanistan was not.

But this is not a game of pointscoring about who is more guilty out of Russia and the USA, it is about which alliance serves Polish interests the best. The choice is between a well established democracy with a msrket system that has never invaded Poland and on the other hand a corrupt decadent oligarchy ruled by a coterie of Ex intelligence officials.

I don't know why as a Polish and American citizen you are making such a huge effort to defend Russia? Could it be because actually you are a Russian? Anyway it's getting late over there - isn't it time you caught your rickety tram homw had a plate of grey mush to go with your vodka?
cms neuf   
23 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Yeah not many crimes - just killing journalists, poisoning people, invading neighbouring states, shooting down airliners, bribing officials, and stealing billions and billions of Russian taxpayers money ( the last one should concern concern you since you are a Russian taxpayer).

Given that, even Poland we would definitely rather the USA was in our coner, doesn't matter which idiot is in charge - could be Obama could be Trump, they are both better than the KGB thief in chief Putin.
cms neuf   
23 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

You claim ti despise commies but you praise an ex KGB man bent on reasserting Russian dominance in Eastern Europe.

This is a pattern that we see pretty often on this forum - someone turns up complaining about toilets or asking about the best recipe for Polish mushrooms and within for five days they decide to Lecture us on geopolitics with the decidedly pro Russian view.
cms neuf   
21 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Of course you can use standard deviation is to refer to fractional outcomes - you could for example work out the standard deviation In the result of 10 consecutive coin tosses. In fact why don't you google standard deviation of 10 consecutive coin tosses.

So think of this as a 35 sided coin Which in 30 flips always lands with the American eagle face up - not sure where that is, could be a coincidence or could be because of the high number of gun toting morons in the US.

The origin of the word six Sigma before it became a business meme is that it shows a highly unusual result - and people like Toyota or whoever try and have their errors as highly unusual.

Asked for gun laws neighbouring states - is it conceivable to you that a criminal from Chicago might borrow a gun from one in Milwaukee ?