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There is of course a long history of drugs being withdrawn - even Tacitus says here that vaccines 30 years ago were a lot less safe than now. When I was born it was just after Thalidomide had been withdrawn - but science moved on, too late for the people who had been told it was harmless.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

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 ?

News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

Yeah - dont know much about Chicago rappers. My friend was raving about Mick Jenkins but i couldnt ger into it.

Please back on topic

News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

He he - never heard Chief Keef but giving it a blast now. Good stuff !

News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

Well Velund first Russia will need to find people willing to lend it that kind of money at a reasonable rate - unlikely to happen when the rule of law is doubtful and the economy reliant on one very volatile commodity (half of which is stooen by the boss man)

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.

News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

A sick experiment with some of the highest living standards in the world - certainly much higher than in Russia (unless of course you are Putin and able to sit on your 50m yacht that your friend bought you).

You will be waiting a long time for your Berlin wall moment but while you wait then maybe ask the people of East Berlin if the EU is like the USSR.

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.

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

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Exactly - he's not emotionally invested in Poland, but he is financially invested in Russia because he is paid by the thieves that run the place

Polands alliance with the EU and the US certainly has its problems but it's 100 times better than living like a Russian

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

I meant in Poland !

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

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.

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.

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?

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).

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?

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.

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.

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

But Maf wages have increased dramatically in Poland in the period which coincides with the Ukrainian migration, some of that is due to the government raising the minimum wage, but a lot of it is to do with genuine market forces support only about 5% of the workforce on the minimum wage anyway.

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

Well i need to try that - im in London later this week so sure they will have that !

I had horse milk in an Uzbek restaurant once

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

Man what dies camel milk taste like ? I will try most things but that sounds awful LOL

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 ?

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

You are again comparing rich rural areas of the US with entite countries. And in this case you are comparing total murders not gun murders.

The six Sigma refers to numbers of standard deviations from the expected result - so for example if there are 35 OECD countries, industrialised democraces iwith market economies, then the chance that each country has of having the highest rate of gun violence is one in 35.

The chance of one country having the highest gun murder rate 30 years in succession is one in 35 to the 29th power. That is a number that will break your calculator. It is also a number there is many standard deviation is away from the expected result.

Of course you can use linear regression to handle many more than three predictive variables - some companies like facebook use regressions and algorithms with even hundreds of variables, probably the same kind they use to interfere in your elections. The only problem is that you need to have many events to cover many variables - in the case of the US then half million gun murders over the last 20 years should be a significant enough sample size.

Of course once you get to this point in your statistics classes you can always revolutionise the academic thought on this issue by showing clearly that there is no correlation.

Given that there are no hard borders between US states; then the level of gun control at state levels is only a minor deterrent to petty or hardened criminals. Gun laws in Chicago did not matter if you can buy guns and ammo in Gary or Milwaukee and drive them to Chicago in an hour or so. That takes less than a minute of reasoning to work out.

Thank God my kids don't have to worry about school shootings. Not sure why they have never been any in Poland - maybe because we don't allow any Muslim hordes in or maybe because it's impossible to get hold of guns without a psychological test

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

As i understand you are about to start an MBA. So one of the first classes you will do is statistics. I am sure that will include linear regressions and six sigma etc.

So maybe correlate gun ownership to murder and adjust for other variables - Wealth, density of population, age profiles, of course your favourite ethnicity , and once you have done that I think that you will see an extremely clear correlation between gun ownership and violent death at the habds of a gunman.

Of course policymakers all over Europe have already done that work - and come to the conclusion that liberal gun laws equals a huge spike in gun violence.

Cue some nonsense about your SAT score but at the moment, like most gun nuts your logic is to conpare the most peaceful rural areas of the US with the most deprived nd crowded parts of Europe. Thats the level of debate in the US unfortunately.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Montana has a murder rate 3x higher than France - no surprise as guns are freely available to the poorly educated population.

Cant be bothered to look up Wyoming but at 16 murders in 2017 it is more than your bete noire grenade throwing no go zone of Malmo.

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

I cut sugar in my diet by about 80 percent and i lost 7 kilos in 2 months without really changing anything else. It's difficult though - its in so nany foods and when travelling its hard to avoid

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

I dont know about lack of exercise- a few years ago the only gyms were for meatheads, you never saw joggers and people mainly cycled if they were going to buy another half litre.

Looking on the streets this Sunday there are nany people doing serious exercise

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Most people in Europe are grateful for US defence and for the sacrifices of US soldiers and sailors, But America join the war because ir was attacked - not because of some holy mission to create democracies

In any European democracy if the people wish for a watertight, US style of FreeSpeech then they can vote for a government the promises one.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

You compare yourselves to Guatemala and El Salvador ? (both countries whete US policy has had devastating effects on society by the way) ?

Compare Vermont to the richest parts of France - I dunno sonewhere like Annecy or Aix. It will have a much higher murder rate.