Language / Będę kupowała/będę kupić [18]


you must have seen będę kupować because będę kupić does not exist in Polish as Zibi has stated

there is no real difference between będę kupował and będę kupować

but surely there is a difference between będę kupował and będę kupowała - it;s about gender of the speaker as you probably know

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Frau Lebensraum

Language / How to pronounce "y" in Polish? [28]


snd Polish "a" sounds like Italian 'a' in words like pasta, basta, mangiare - simple

Genealogy / Mackowiak surname, Maćkowiak [17]

don't know about Kashubians but Maćkowiak is quite a popular surname among Poles at large

Language / How to pronounce "y" in Polish? [28]


i believe this is the closest you get in English

as for the remark of 'y' being similar to 'e' at the end of words - well - I don't think so

Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

have never been there but judging from the fact that the city was built almost from scratch by the communists it must be quite ugly

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


I have no experience or knowledge whatsover of any foreing educational systems - one thing I know is Polish education system hardly teaches children to think for themselves and hardly promotes creativity and creative approach to problems and learning - in my kid years primary schools at least offered children an insight into the world of practical skills (Zajęcia praktyczno-techniczne) and many young people already found their calling then - it is all gone now AFAIK

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


it's not the universities that are the main problem but earlier education and in fact in Poland the system where money follows the student is much in place but it creates a different result that you would want to see - it creates a situation where universities accept all students they can (and even more than they can) and keep even those who are not actually fit for university education


yes I think you are right on this for the most part

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]

ech pawian, I have seen the avarage quality of today's graduates - you are fooling yourself mostly - high school deans complain that the level of science among their newcomers have dropped dramatically and they can hardly cope with that because there is a serious gap

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [870]


you definitely can't read Polish jason because you would a couple of times question in your mind the version of the situation your father in law has presented you with (the story told by the Rybitzky guy is very different to what your FIL told you)


AFAIK they are not killing anybody in Guantanamo - neither they tear their fingernails away or burn away their testicles with high intensity current - so it hardly compares - definitely not with Chechnia war

with America some standards are upheld - they have openly chased and killed bin Laden

quote=pawian]Don`t be a child. Russia isn`t worse than USA and the USA isn`t any better than Russia. [/quote]

are you serious? are you sure it's the same thing to border with Russia and to border with the US?? which country would you personally want to border with?

now imagine that the Smoleńsk crash was actually a Russian terrorist act - what would you do then (if you have prove enough to believe it) - just forget it and move on? shut up for the sake of 'good relations'?

I don't say it was a Russian made thing - I don't know that - but a lot of things seem very suspicious (like the treatment of the plane wreckage) - should we stop asking questions and stop attempts to discover what actually happened - because there already have been a lot of lies told by the Russians themselves and by some circles in Poland that it begs to dig further for the truth because it seems quite sure to me we don't know the truth at the moment


oh, pal - are you sure Mexicans complain about the neighbourhood of the USA? or quite contrary? also do those Mexicans whose ancestors were conquered by the US long to be united with their 'motherland' or quite contrary - if you don't see that the US is much more a country of freedom than Russia then you should buy good glasses

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [870]


what the hell the Russians need and use that intelligence for that they need people to be killed - do you not see that if what you state is true Russia is not a normal civilized country one can have a proper relations with???

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [870]


why the hell did Russians kill Litvinienko???

how do I know - I am not the alpha and omega - but I'm pretty sure we can exclude the engines exploding because it would simply destroy them and AFAIK at least one engine is visible on the photos of the crashed plane quite intact - explosions on the other hand could have easily destroyed controls and fuel supply to the engines causing them to stop as was testified by those witnesses I mentioned

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


This one

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


biofuesl have been heavily subsided in the US (it was really huge sums) - I know cause I have read an article about people calling for ending the subsidies - that's about being impartial


all technologies involving coal are quite dirty - in fact burning of the coal (especially de-sulphurised and in big plants) can well be the cleanest coal technology - the known technologies to produce methanol or ethanol involve turning it into gas by some partial burning to produce - there is still a lot toxic and problematic byproducts

News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]

youtube.com/watch?v=2RyX5vX9Qfs&feature=feedu

this video explains a lot about Lithuanian educational policies toward their Polish minority - the problem is not 2 additional subjects to be taught in Lithuanian in Polish schools - watch the video to learn more

News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]

there was a partizan war in Lithuania against the Soviets like 1945-1950-something en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_partisans

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


oh, my - pall - start reading some different sources too - if you believe this you are quite hmm gullible? prejudiced?

how on earth would Poland attack Germany in 1939 when they knew pretty well Germany was stronger and at a strategic advantage - what would be the purpose of it tell me? no basic logic pal

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


this is simply rubbish - Polish troops were set along the borders for fears that if we leave these lands undefended Germans will ocuppy them without a shot and then offer peace demanding the territories in question - Polish army staff realized the power discrepancies and were not up to aggresive war

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Polish army managed to mobilize around 1 Mio troops on the 1st of September - the full mobilization potential was 1,5 - 1,6 million - this is because many mobilized during the 30th mobilization never managed to reach their units

the march mobilization was just a preliminary - you can't create defensive postions without such a preliminary mobilization

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


the thing you completely miss is that tripartite Polish-British-French guarantees were purely defensive - it meant that if one of the countries would be attacked by Hitler all other will join the war and help the attacked

Poland could have avoided war with Germany even as late as early 1939 by joining up with Hitler - this is what Hitler wanted - up to the moment that he realized Polish rulers will be loyal to their military pact with France (from that point detailed plans for war with Poland started to be drawn)

could Poland have avoided the war in the days leading up to September - I think it is possible still - the demands Hitler gave were pretty symbolic and didn't touch any strategic Polish interests - it was actually a stick and a carrot offering by Hitler - Hitler still counted that Poland switches alliances but being a bit humilated by Poles wanted some symbolic punishment on Poles

so I guess if Poland abandoned her western allies in the early to middle August and went for reconciliation, cooperation and then an alliance with Germany there wouldn't have been war with Germany in 1939 - the World War would break out anyway - with Hitler and Poland attacking the Soviet Union jointly (most probably with the assistance of Romania and several other countries (Hungary, Slovakia perhaps Bulgaria)

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


if you are an agressive side you don;t fully mobilize on the day before the planned invasion - no? - Germans were mobilizing weeks before the September the1st and they even planned to strike earlier on 26th of August - the only reason they didn't was because the Polish-British treaty in case of war with Germany was signed that mandated Great Britain to declare war on Germany in case it attacks Poland - Hitler hestitated for a moment and thats why the attack was postponed (btw because of lack of coordination some sabotage actions of German Fifth Column took place on the 26th of August as planned


having your borders fortified doen't immediately prove defensive stance - one scenario Hitler must have considered was attacking France frist - in this case he needed some defence on his eastern borders - though Poland was on rather good terms with Germany in the years 1937-38 up to the early 1939 and Hitler was trying to make Poland his official ally and attack Soviet Russia together Poland proved not reliable to Hitler when she declared she will come back to defend France in accordance with the Franco-Polish pact

simply just having your borders fortified gives you more strategic and even tactical options

News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]


it was not Lithuanians who blocked it but Stalin AFAIK - Stalin didnt want a land without people (because there were areas of huge Polish majority or nearly purely Polish - both in Lithuania and neighboring areas in Belarus) - in case of Lithuania Stalin also went for divide and conquer strategy - Polish population were quick to learn Russian and with the arriving Russian nationals formed a serious counterbalance to any purely Lithuanian social movements

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


this is a simple misunderstanding - for someone Polish who is not accustomed to scientific terminology 'paliwo' (fuel) is the stuff you pour into your car tank (coal and wood are colloquially called 'opał' and not 'paliwo')

I am not against having as much percentage energy coming from renewable sources as possible as long as it is economical - the thing is those renewable sources are not without problems and appart from organic matter are very expenisve (there is big potential in Poland for geothermal energy yet the thing is prohibitively expensive most of the time in spite of the fact it has serious advantages over any other renewable energy sources - heat pumps are superb solution for areas of low density developement but man they are expensive (for Polish circumstances))

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


Wrocław Boy - Germany is more or less the same size as Poland (slightly bigger I guess) and it doesn't have any shale gas to speak of

European part of Russia is similar in this regard - their shale gas is negligible

the same is with your typical gas and oil - there are regions that have huge amounts and there are regions that don't have any economic gas and oil

I know geology is difficult ;) (actually not very difficult)

and yes - shale gas is environmentally risky thing (no comparison to standard gas developing)

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

I guess sythetic fuel from coal made in Fischer-Tropff process was not economic in the times of low oil prices - there has been proposals for building such an installation in Poland though (and they will surely return whith oil prices rising)

however coal gas as a fuel is not without problems - first of all it's dangerous because it contains a lot of carbon monoxide (which is very toxic) - it also contains hydrogen and therefore is a serious explosive hazard - the productions isn't clean - there is an huge array of potential polutant by-products of which many are difficult to manage (benzene, tar-water emulsions) - then there still remains the question if the process is economical compared to simple coal burning in power plants - untill late 80's coal gas was used quite extensively - Silesia and nearby areas where supplied with 'gaz koksowniczy' (which is very similar thing) in the same manner natural gas is provided now

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


you don't mind Private Messages smurf, do you? - there is a big chance the thread will be dead or you will miss newer posts - so I ask if you don't mind PM's from me about the topic

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


you know - Russia was once at the forefront of communism - is it always good to be at the forefront? - btw Poland can actually be at the forefront: at the forefront against the surge of stupid ideology

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

if sea levels would be rising noticeably it will be easily observed on various piers - I don't think this is what we are seing at the moment - if the rise has been 10 cm in some 20 last years it would have been noticed on the said piers and secondly it wouldn't affect even the likes of Kiribati and Maledives

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


I am not sure there has ever been any fresh ground water on Kiribati in living memory pal - this is coral - this is low lying - evaporation far exceeds the rainfall - pacificwater.org/pages.cfm/country-information/kiribati.html

and displacement may be caused by drought which leads to lack of drinking water and not serious rising of sea level - but if someone has an agenda they will not disclose facts that don't fit his agenda

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


there can be simply other explanations to why the earth is warming - it is enough if there are statistically less clouds in summer months for whatever reason (there may be reasons we don't actually yet know or understand) to produce the observed warming - and pushing one theory is what I call dishonest


heh - you've seen it or just repeat whatever you hear on the TV? - for one thing Kiribati and Maledives experience the least of tides on the ocean so the rising ocean levels would be pretty obvious there (unless the islands are sinking because of geological processes)

btw if you cared to look the NOAA images show that the extent of ice floes in Davies strait, Baffin Bay and off the Labrador coast this year are biggest in years