News / SHOULD POLAND HAVE NUKES?? [154]


Let's see.

Russians

- Nov. 1920 Soviet invasion of Armenia

- Feb 1921 Soviet Invasion of Georgia

- Sept. 1939 Soviet Invasion of Poland

- Nov. 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland

- Aug. 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria

- Nov. 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary

- Aug. 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia

- Aug. 1968 Soviet lead Warsaw Pact invasion of Czekoslovakia

- Dec. 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

There is more but that should suffice for now.

Pakistanis (as a political entity haven't existed for 100 years)

- October 1947 Pakistanis invaded Kashmir

- August 1965 Pakistani launch a covert offensive into the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir

If the number of invasions were to be the deciding factor of who should have nukes then the following countries should give them up:

United Kingdom
USA
Israel
France
Pakistan
China

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]


About 80% of 29 year old males in Italy live at home. There is a term for them in Italian - mammoni. They just can't afford rent. The number of mammoni around the developed countries will only increase. Economy is in complete shambles and it's only going to get worse.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

he is not Polish, you half wit.

History / Should David Irving, Holocaust denier, be allowed to run tours to Poland? [246]

We certainly don't want history to be twisted, but how do you know the official line is right in every detail if you shut the opponents up. Doesn't that make the official version twisted, or at least suspect?

I think BB is right.

The very nature of history, and of any kind of research for that matter, is revisionist. Without revising the old or the present we'd still be worried about the possibility of falling of the edge of the flat world. Most of the official holocaust body of studies is revisionist too. The revised Hitler's stand on Jewish issues. The British revised their practice of slavery and decided it would make sense to abolish it, and the women rights activists were/are certainly revisionists.

A vast majority of the official so called "studies" on holocaust are not real studies at all. I'd call it a mix of propaganda, business and politics.

Travel / My visit to Poland - Likes & Dislikes. [137]

So she liked some parts and aspects of Poland while she disliked others. What's the big deal. Her visit, her impressions.

It's not like she lives in paradise. After all there are enough people who dislike her hometown and consider it ugly.

Life / POLISH MYTHS - let's debunk or prove them! [141]


for the US (still probably the country which is most free speech friendly) some examples are:

COINTELPRO, software cryptography laws, "indecency laws" guarded by FCC, DMCA act which stifles research, various gag orders in matter of public interest, free speech zones, political correctness, Carnivore Project.

Life / POLISH MYTHS - let's debunk or prove them! [141]

Another few of Polish myth:

- foreigners, especially Westerners, are intelligent, honest, good looking and rich.
- in the West there is full freedom and no censorship


That may a myth that is not specifically Polish. A myth nevertheless, and it does exist among many Poles.

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]



I don't know how much of the US and Canada you have traveled but you got it all reversed. Canadian English is less diversified than American English. One sharp exception are the rural populations in Eastern Provinces. The rest of the country is pretty uniform and the difference between BC and Ontario are less noticeable than the difference between Lower Manhattan and Washington Heights (Upper Manhattan).

While Canadian English is certainly not 100% uniform, the changes go along a East-West continuum. In the US those changes are all over the place. Just traveling from RI, via MA, NY, NJ you will hear more variation than in all of Canada, and in the US it does not even sound like there is continuum of the changes.


You may want to know that NYC "accent" is possibly more diversified than that of all of Canada. Most of it is actually influenced by Italian and a less by Hebrew/Yiddish. Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens sound very much different than the less orthodox Jewish people of the above boroughs. These Jews and the Jews living in the the outskirts of NYC ( NJ, PA and LI) but who spend most of their time in the city sound more along the lines of General American. And that's just the Jewish neighborhoods in NYC.

Life / SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT POLAND AND POLISH SOCIETY [297]


Was she worse looking than those women?




There is no such place on this planet.


So what exactly do moo slimes do about the conflict? Where is the aboundant "help" to Palestinians?


Sure. A very beautiful country:

and some really wonderful culture.
So how many millions of those Indian widows are treated worse than dogs:

India is still a shhithole and probably one of the ugliest countries in the world. Women are treated like shhit and its a picture of poverty and misery for most.


Really? I didn't realize widows are treated like garbage in Western Europe.
I hope Poland will never reach that "ideal"


As for the gas, are you sure Indians have enough to eat to expel any gas.


Oh, so you work diplomat fields?
Do you pick cotton or strawberries?
From the way you write you appear to be somewhere between a chimpanzee and grade 3 (that's primary school). No offense to 3rd graders.

In conclusion, thank you for the wonderful review of Poland. I hope it will discourage more garbage from you country from coming to Polnad to pollute it with the "wonderful" culture and riches of India.

Genealogy / Funny Polish surnames [64]

Psica
Dubska (pronounced dupska)

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]


How many say that?

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]


Wrong on both counts. The status of nobility in Poland, unlike in some other countries, did not mean the person was rich. Hence, the fact that some emigre may have been poor does not meat that person was not of one of the nobility lines of Poland.

I general Polish nobility was divided into various groups, and the lowest of them (still szlachta) were the following:

* szlachta szaraczkowa
* szlachta zagrodowa
* szlachta zagonowa
* szlachta cząstkowa
* szlachta zaściankowa
* szlachta okoliczna
* szlachta drążkowa
* szlachta chodaczkowa
* gołota

All the above groups varied, in their material status, from today's lower middle class to today's welfare recipients.

The reminder of emigration from the territories of Poland, Germany and Russia were predominantly Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Jews and Russians - pretty much in that order. Hence the likelihood of someone emigrating from Central/Europe being a Jews was unremarkable.

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]

Really?
So what does this mean:

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]


You already offered figures, even if you don't realize that.
According to your statements, if the number of Jews in a country, say Germany, is up to 10% then the people living there, and their descendants are Jews. From the other angle, you suggest that if 90% of people are Germans that means they are Jews.

I wonder, does the number of Jews increase as their numbers decrease, the other way around, or both?

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]


I don't believe. I look for facts.

So based on one small region with a couple hundred Jews you assume that all Poles are in fact Jews.


OK, so in Southern Poland and Galicia the situation may have been different but you still think that all descendants of Poles, Germans and Russians are Jews.

Have you even read the nonsense you posted?

Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]


Jews, depending on the historic period, constituted anywhere between (roughly) 0% and 10% of Middle and Eastern European populations. So based on that we can assume, and easily at that, that all descendants of Poles, Germans, Russians etc are Jews, but not Poles, Germans or Russian. These, after all, composed only 90 to 100% of the respective populations.

Interesting.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


Yugoslavs certainly deserves praise for their resistance against Germans, when the former eventually stopped cooperating with the Nazis.

Yugoslavia: smaller numbers of German soldiers, much smaller losses of trained military personnel, terrain much easier for underground operations, de facto recognition by the US and UK leading to significant material support by the allies.

Poland: Significantly larger German (and until 1941 also Soviet) forces, less favorable terrain, significant military losses to two WW2 powers, lack of material support by any allied forces,


So... who freed the USSR?

Study / 90% of Poles have university degree? [57]


I post for myself, not for others.
Try that. Using your own brain is not that hard.

Ask her.


Actually she does not.


She has not.

Study / 90% of Poles have university degree? [57]

So called higher education has become an industry in most countries these days. Actual science as a mainstream goals of the academia is but a fading memory. These days the guaranteed sophistries are multicultural "studies", green sh,it and , of course, holocaust "studies". These are the best ones to get you grants and scholarships.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


I think you are too modest. Holland did take first place in a few areas related to Jews during WW2:

- the highest number of Jews killed in an western European country during WW2
- the highest number per capita of volunteers fighting with the Nazis (I wonder if they killed Jews too)
- the most efficient system of rounding up Jews and transporting them to Konzlagers. Eichmann certainly appreciated the efficiency.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]

Pan Hrabia comes back home on an early morning after an intense night with Pani Hrabina (the countess). Jan, his servant, helps him undress and then assists him with the bath.

But sir! Exclaims Jan. Why does your penis have all those cuts?
Oh, you knw the countess. She is so well mannered she wouldn't put anything into her mouth without fork and knife.

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]


They have plenty of those in Poland
google.ca/maps/search/banki+warszawa/@52.2170661,20.8382438,11z/data=!3m1!4b1

Study / Medicine study - good Polish University for international students; study in English? [38]


Do you have to take Latin?
Years ago it was compulsory for Poles, unless, in some cases, they took Latin in a secondary level school.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]


Funny.
But why aren't they wearing Polish paramedic uniforms?

Love / Are Polish still very traditional when it comes to relationships? [31]


Mallory! Is that you?

youtube.com/watch?v=Slwpt4gtCNg

Love / Are Polish still very traditional when it comes to relationships? [31]


These things can certainly be overcome as they have for centuries.
Heck, if some priests can have girlfriends without getting married to them then why not those who pay for the priests' livelihoods.

News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]


Sounds just about right. Another example is the bio-fuels. While the idea sounds good initially, some numbers reveal a different story that has been quietly swept under the carpet as governments no longer yap about corn in the gas tank.

It turns out that out of 12% of American arable land they were able too replace 1% (that's ONE percent) of conventional oil. Using up 100% of arable area would then replace less than 8.4% of conventional oil. There would be some additional savings in oil use though. There simply would be no food to buy anymore, so people would not drive to grocery stores.

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]


looks like she's the one with the balls at home :)

News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]


Not a problem at all. 80 years is longer than oil is supposed to last. It is also longer than the estimated supplies of copper. Without those two we can have no plastics or electrical wiring. Without electrical wiring there is no need for electricity, is there?


Actually, the most efficient solar panels are around 30%. And these are very expensive. That translates into about 0.41 Watts per square meter. On a sunny day it would take about 3 square meters of a solar panel area to power an average hair dryer and about 10 to 30 square meters to power an average house of , say 150sq/meters. That, of course would be possible only during the day. For the remainder of the 24 cycle deep cycle batteries would have to be used. They contain acid which is certainly not your tree-hugger dream, is it?

For the enthusiasts, a retail cost of a 80 Watt solar panel is about $700. An average house needs about 50 to 100 of those. Let's go solar!!!

In Polar areas solar would be available for about 1/2 of the year and I'm not sure technology exists to store the solar energy for the other 1/2 of a year without significant loss of energy due to simple attenuation. Now, we could look at transmitting power to Polar/Arctic regions via wire from sunnier areas (very expensive infrastructure and maintenance) but that would occuer at a significant transmission power loss.

Windmills are becoming a big business and there are a few windmill farms around where I live. The big ones cost on average $1M each, plus the associated infrastructure (inverters, installation, maintenance).

For an average house the cost is about $50,000 for a 10kW setup, and then you have some groups (sometimes the same who wanted the wind mills) complaining about health effects of the windmills.

At this point the only reasonable source of free energy seems to be this:

youtube.com/watch?v=RQG6AanYdmQ

Now, if we could replace the hampster with you then we'd be able to power a small laptop.

Oh, Poland could go for the tidal waves! What tidal waves? The Baltic sea tides are perhaps the same as the thickness of a hair. OK, a pubic hair, but that's still not enough to power the country.


This is how this "smart" program works in Ontario.
As an individual you install solar panels and you can sell to the grid up to 10kW, for whoch they pay you $0.80 per kW/hr (leess per kW/hr if you supply more). You then buy electricity back from them a market rate (currently $0.05 to $0.07 kW/hr.) Looks like a good deal, huh? Three problems:

- you sell your max energy capacity only on sunny days but you pay for it 24/7/365 so your $0.80 goes down very fast.
- the cost of the contraption is so high that there are few takers.
- where does the government get the money to pay to those who have the money in the first place?

News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]


And you are an electrician?
You are a danger, man.

There is nothing simple or inexpensive in switching from 220v to 12v. Where I live the common household has 110v power switches and receptacles. I actually upgraded my 110v service in my workshop to 220v because it is more efficient and cheaper to install than 110v. The wires don't have to be as thick as for lower voltages.

By way of example, my dust collector (a big vacuum cleaner with a 15 cm diameter hose) uses 9 amps on 220v. I could rewire the motor to make it run on 110v, but then, to maintain the same power, it would run at 18 amps which is dangerous on a 15amp circuit that I have and that is common in households. I'd have to upgrade the circuit wire to handle 30 amps (10AWG), as 20amps (12 AWG) would not be sufficient to carry continuous 18 amp load - the wires would overheat and that would be the first step to a nice fire.

Having done that I'd need to change my circuit breaker, and if I decided to similarly downgrade all my 220v machines to 110v then I would eventually have to change the entire electrical panel. In fact, I'd love to have some 660v 3phase equipment in my workshop.

And the above examples are only for voltage drop from 220 to 110. If you were to go from 220v to 12v then the wires in an average household would probably the diameter similar to that of a tennis ball, and the wiring of an average house would be probably about $1M. And that's only inside a house. Now, imagine the long distance transmission lines. Do you have even a faint idea how thick the wires would have to be to supply electricity to an average village, let alone a city?

And don't even get me started on voltage drops, or DC current transmission over large distances.

I hope you do not actually do electrical work. This is not rocket science, but it is very dangerous if you have only an approximate idea of what you are doing. For your own sake stay away from electrical wires, please.