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convex   
22 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

You can better call that 'resolution' green light order for US to go in another war for pure self interest.

Might want to talk to France and the UK as to why they were so gung-ho about going in.

No fugees of any kind in Poland.Period.The country is already broke and there is more than enough Polish people in need of ***************** fugees only want free housing and ********* them.I want to be a fugee too and live of somone's else money.Where do I need to apply?

First you'd need to get shot at, then, you flee to another country for the safety of your family. At that point, you stick around in a camp for a year, then you get on the "lite" version of the welfare system that so many worthless people here are exploiting (see my ex-neighbors upstairs).
convex   
21 Apr 2011
History / United States of America Vs Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [74]

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and America are very different in many aspects - one major for example is PLC never had powerful standing army (because of fear of the noble classes that the kings will take the country over like in the West or in Russia) contrary to America

The United States was never meant to have a powerful standing army for the exact same reasons (change nobles for states, and kings for federal government).
convex   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

Odessa-Brody- and perhaps further Płock, Gdańsk is (and will) not a gas pipeline but an oil one- so no Turkmen gas will ever flow through it (btw there is no guarantee it will ever be extended to Poland - at the moment it pumps oil in the opposite direction i.e. to the Black Sea

If a pipeline can be built to pump oil, why can't one be built to pump gas?

there were some vague ideas of transporting LNG from postulated terminals in Georgia than pumping it through Ukraine to Poland - the problem is at the source: Russians bribe and/or threat Central Asiatic countries including Azerbaijan into pumping their gas through their network and abandoning projects to deliver gas to Europe through Turkey and the Balkans

Quite a bit of gas flows through Georgia and Turkey and is then tankered over the Black Sea. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan are actively looking for ways to sell their oil and gas without having to rely on Gazprom to play the middleman.

Poland needs to get off it's haunches and get after it....but, in reality, it's not that big of a concern as the supply will always be next door one way or the other.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

Poland couldn't build a pipeline without Russians agreeing to it - wouldn't it end on the Latvian border somewhere??? - you don't just build pipelines everywhere and then wait till someone cares to pump some gas into it

Oil and gas doesn't just come from Russia.

I don't think Poland is building any natural gas pipeline with Ukraine - I don't know if Poland contributed to the Brody-Odessa project (a crude oil pipeline - not a natural gas one) financially - there were some plans to extend it to Płock and Gdańsk

That's a choice left to Poland on whether it wants to pursue that route. Brody-Plock would mean bypassing Russia all together...and provide access to Turkmen gas...you know, where the Russians get their stuff from. There was also a plan to build an underwater pipeline to Denmark to link up to Norwegian gas and oil. Again, a Polish decision.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
Law / Let's see how good is your Polish income tax law knowledge :-) [8]

If you're not a resident of a foreign country, you don't qualify for the exclusion. You have to be registered in Poland (or some other foreign country) to qualify (which is a requirement anyway after 90 days, but no one really cares if you're self employed).

From my research it seems that I will have to go through the paperwork and establish self employment in Poland in order to pay my income taxes and ZUS? Does this sound correct in your opinions?

You're exactly right.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Of course, but once you lose the population and spread yourself thin, what's to prevent a neighbor from rolling in and taking it all again? Aggressive neighbors make for, well aggressive neighbors.
convex   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

Now here's one for you, it's about guaranteeing the supply. Less partners in a business relationship means more reliability. If it could be done cheaper, Poland should build an overground route....much like they're doing with the Ukraine....
convex   
21 Apr 2011
History / The smallest Poland ever? [115]

Increase territory while decreasing the population. Interesting approach.
convex   
20 Apr 2011
News / British man accused of molesting teenagers in Poland [74]

if he's got form, he'll be found out.

If the crime happened in the UK. I'm guessing that the JP2 Polish supplementary school hires quite a few foreigners.

So require them to produce a similar document from Poland. I'm frankly a bit surprised that the school in question doesn't.

Yup, just like when starting a company. It's not too difficult, and would cover the majority of people applying. Wouldn't do much for serial criminals.

It seems that you have misunderstood the regulations.

The applicant still has to fill out the form. If I'm a Swiss guy that has been convicted of a crime in Bulgaria and am applying for a position in Britain, all I'd have to do is just not tell you that I was in Bulgaria. That's what I meant by honor system and a CYA form. Especially considering the number of people that are passing through for a year or so and then move on to somewhere else (lots of them in Prague, Budapest, Bucharest...not so many here I suppose).
convex   
20 Apr 2011
News / British man accused of molesting teenagers in Poland [74]

the type of policy set by a Polish supplementary school in the UK which can be found here.

Seems like more of an attempt to "CYA" by the management of the school. It's all based on voluntary disclosure and assumes that the applicant will be honest. It gets even more complicated when you start employing foreigners. CRB doesn't have any records on their activities in their home countries, and their past will be much more difficult to verify? Did Mr Kowalski, or Ms Schmidt, or Mr Evans get a conviction in Romania before moving to the UK? What if they don't voluntarily disclose that they worked there? It seems like in the end it's still more or less based on the honor system.
convex   
20 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

So what if it is only a minority of European people?

Because not every person that holds an opinion can be catered to. Some racists don't want to see black men with white women (and vice versa), some don't want to see minorities at all. Should they don a mask?

If an black knocks on your door asking if he could live in your house for the rest of his life and you and your kids agree

But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about things that don't affect you directly. Quite a few Germans don't like Poles, and plenty of Poles don't like Germans. Does that mean that Germans shouldn't get together with Poles at the risk of offending someone? I mean Aryans and....Slavs? eww right? Should we respect their opinions? Are we flaunting it when we speak German in Poland, or Polish in Germany together?
convex   
19 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

Not in US and certainly not in Poland.

It's not justification, it's just how they developed.

They should always keep in mind that they are just immigrants to the EU and thus shouldn't offend native Europeans or otherwise face the negative reactions.

Offend a small group of native Europeans. Why should the bigot minority be catered to when most people don't have a problem?
convex   
19 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

I charge as they were standing about 5m away. For all that tough talk Chicago gangsta boys sure can run.

Geto Boys said it right:

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta-ass nigga plays his cards right
A real gangsta-ass nigga never runs his f*ckin mouth
'cause real gangsta-ass niggas don't start fights

convex   
19 Apr 2011
Study / Is Poland a good place to study for Black Africans? [90]

I like your attitude, do u find that these hooligans back down when they know u can fight?

Most of the bigots are drunk and won't fight you, they just want to scare you and see you run. Power in numbers thing, but if you make it clear that one will definately go down. In general, if you step up to people around here, they'll usually back down pretty quick. The Muay Thai and Krav Maga guys at decent schools seem pretty laid back (as far as being racists).
convex   
17 Apr 2011
Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]

On to my on going work in progress! Told you I have a balcony that I smoke on, well on that balcony is a shelf (will show a picture at the bottom) I decided I want to make that shelf my "Beverage Center" I have some more work to do but here is a pic what what it looks like so far. Still need to add the wine and more spirits but, it is starting to look better!

Just make sure that it's not observable :) I used the balcony as a big fridge too.
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

My feeling is that it would have got a lot worse.

The insurgents were already pushed to nearly being toppled. Ghaddafi would have played the people against them (he had already started). That's what was going on. Now it's a deadlock. Perpetual war.

That's the dilemma, isn't it. Gaddafi's gold reserves mean he called the shots at the AU. But when to intervene or not. I don't think it can have been an easy decision to get involved, but the oil in LIbya is too strategically important to leave anything to chance.

The oil flows regardless of who's in power.
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Exactly. And we don't want huge loss of life and even bigger military spending if it all gets worse.

What would have happened if there wasn't a no-fly zone and NATO bombing ground targets? The uprising would have ended a long time ago.

Same difference really. A stitch in time saves nine.

I guess, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Chechnya... Should NATO bomb Belarus? Israel? Syria? Iran? It's an act of aggression against a sovereign nation. This is AU territory. NATO shouldn't have gotten involved. ZA and Morocco have enough resources to enforce a no-fly zone.
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

NATO is not an offensive treaty, never was. The command structure is just being used to manage the attack. Countries can still disagree on attacking sovereign nations. If Poland decided to bomb Bahrain or Yemen, do you think the UK would come along? Probably not as the ground attack Typhoons are already overstretched as is. Poland doesn't have the money for an offensive war...neither does the UK or the US for that matter. Why should they get involved if no NATO member was attacked?
convex   
15 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

Read the treaty, as BB said, which NATO member is under attack? As for civilians getting slaughtered, it's a tribal civil war.

Against whom? Poltergeist maybe?

Against anyone that decides to attack a member of the treaty. Whether that's Russia, Libya, Iran, China, Vanuatu...

Humanitarian actions...

Saved a lot of lives in Bosnia when the Serbs were slaughtering civilians. Kill the soldiers that are killing civilians is the logic behind it.
convex   
14 Apr 2011
News / Poland ready to receive Libyan refugees [159]

I see now that You are ignorant as far as european law is concerned. You don`t see the difference between international law and european law.

The discussion was EU law and Polish obligations under it.

Poland is in NATO no?

NATO is a defense treaty. The attack on Libya is just being coordinated through the NATO command structure.
convex   
14 Apr 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Carefully re-read Julian Tuwim's story as quoted by Strzyga above, and then tell me where exacty in it you see the classy, scholarly, and scientific application of German loanwords.

Szlafrok, the pinnacle of sophistication.