convex
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]
curry or kebab?
It surprises me that you are so up for everything British but dislike our national dish :D
curry or kebab?
convex
13 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish zloty - Canadian dollar: What is the exchange rate? [8]
convert $20000 to zloty, and you should be able to have a really nice time for 4 weeks.
convert $20000 to zloty, and you should be able to have a really nice time for 4 weeks.
convex
13 Jan 2010
Life / Fat People in Poland? [161]
You have to have the motivation to get off your ass and buy decent food, go out for walks in the parks, not stay glued to the idiot box. The possibility is there, most people are just too damn lazy to actually do it.
America - too much Tv watching. Available foods...Not to mention you CANT walk anywhere. The layout of my city atleast it would take a day to get somewhere and even then you have do dodge highways, cars, buses, no sidewalks.....it is a number of things..
You have to have the motivation to get off your ass and buy decent food, go out for walks in the parks, not stay glued to the idiot box. The possibility is there, most people are just too damn lazy to actually do it.
convex
13 Jan 2010
convex
14 Jan 2010
News / The chances for Warsaw to become capital of eventual Slavic confederation? [183]
I think that Poland isn't nearly as "in touch" with it's Slavic heritage as say Serbia. Poles are first and foremost Poles, then either Europeans or Slavs with equal weight. If it were to come to pass, Belgrade would be the capital and driver of any confederation.
i can`t understand that most people here (by the poll) believe that Warsaw doesn`t have chances to become capital of eventual Slavic confederation
I think that Poland isn't nearly as "in touch" with it's Slavic heritage as say Serbia. Poles are first and foremost Poles, then either Europeans or Slavs with equal weight. If it were to come to pass, Belgrade would be the capital and driver of any confederation.
convex
14 Jan 2010
Food / Burgers, why not in Poland? [54]
jesus christ, pork? that's wrong, pork belongs in a lot of things, but despite it's name, a hamburger should only be perverted with bacon.
pork and beef and grind the meat yourself
jesus christ, pork? that's wrong, pork belongs in a lot of things, but despite it's name, a hamburger should only be perverted with bacon.
convex
14 Jan 2010
News / Poland rejects H1N1 vaccine [28]
This was interesting to me, as I remember doing some reading a while back about the over prescription of antibiotics here.
This was interesting to me, as I remember doing some reading a while back about the over prescription of antibiotics here.
convex
14 Jan 2010
Law / Polish passport for a Pakistani guy in Poland? [20]
All the information you need is right here
infor.pl/dziennik-ustaw,rok,2000,nr,28/poz,353,ustawa-o-obywatelstwie-polskim.html
Article 10 is relevant.
If he's learned Polish, integrated into Polish society, understands that he will be required to give up his Pakistani passport, then good deal. Welcome to Poland, you love it, you adapted to it, congratulations.
If on the other hand, he doesn't speak Polish like a champ, doesn't know about Polish culture and history, and doesn't want to renounce his Pakistani citizenship and give up his passport... Well, he's going to have to come to terms that he will never get a Polish passport.
hey evry one....i m frm pakistan living in poland last 3 years with polish wife can now i apply for polish passport kindly let me know asap GOD BLES U
All the information you need is right here
infor.pl/dziennik-ustaw,rok,2000,nr,28/poz,353,ustawa-o-obywatelstwie-polskim.html
Article 10 is relevant.
If he's learned Polish, integrated into Polish society, understands that he will be required to give up his Pakistani passport, then good deal. Welcome to Poland, you love it, you adapted to it, congratulations.
If on the other hand, he doesn't speak Polish like a champ, doesn't know about Polish culture and history, and doesn't want to renounce his Pakistani citizenship and give up his passport... Well, he's going to have to come to terms that he will never get a Polish passport.
convex
14 Jan 2010
News / Poland rejects H1N1 vaccine [28]
Actually, I'm not really a doctor, and there's no such thing as a Prostometer.
Actually, I'm not really a doctor, and there's no such thing as a Prostometer.
convex
14 Jan 2010
News / Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport to close in September [27]
September is the summer month with the least movements. Is it good to lay concrete when it's cold, maybe that has something to do with it?
I wonder why it is scheduled for September as this is the highest season with even more air traffic than in July or August.
September is the summer month with the least movements. Is it good to lay concrete when it's cold, maybe that has something to do with it?
convex
14 Jan 2010
Life / What I miss and don't miss about Poland [64]
Worthless parents make worthless kids. If you can't afford to raise one right, don't have one in the first place.
Worthless parents make worthless kids. If you can't afford to raise one right, don't have one in the first place.
convex
14 Jan 2010
News / Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport to close in September [27]
The airport will be closed for a total of 6 non consecutive days (sat and sun). They are fixing the slab of concrete where the two runways intersect. Building a parallel runway would be ridiculously expensive and not worth it. Warsaw sees less traffic than Birmingham, Alicante, Malaga, and those airports don't even have crosswind runways.
LOT will have to cancel some (weekend) flights, and the tourist bombers won't be able to fly there for 6 days in September. Modlin won't be finished for a while to come.
Alternatively they could do the runways one at a time: not idea from a flying point of view but better than shutting the airport.
The airport will be closed for a total of 6 non consecutive days (sat and sun). They are fixing the slab of concrete where the two runways intersect. Building a parallel runway would be ridiculously expensive and not worth it. Warsaw sees less traffic than Birmingham, Alicante, Malaga, and those airports don't even have crosswind runways.
LOT will have to cancel some (weekend) flights, and the tourist bombers won't be able to fly there for 6 days in September. Modlin won't be finished for a while to come.
convex
14 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish zloty - Canadian dollar: What is the exchange rate? [8]
or just asking google nicely...
1 eur to pln.... or 57.98 eur to pln... or 1373 pln to cad...
or just asking google nicely...
1 eur to pln.... or 57.98 eur to pln... or 1373 pln to cad...
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport to close in September [27]
Why do you say that? What's incompetent about closing a runway to perform needed maintenance on the slowest weekends when it is still safe to do so?
This country really is the epitome of incompetence, its just laughable.
Why do you say that? What's incompetent about closing a runway to perform needed maintenance on the slowest weekends when it is still safe to do so?
convex
15 Jan 2010
Life / Internet / Telephone provider in Krakow [28]
UPC has treated me well. 20/2 package right now... the 120mb fiber to the house isn't much more expensive...might be time for an upgrade.
UPC has treated me well. 20/2 package right now... the 120mb fiber to the house isn't much more expensive...might be time for an upgrade.
convex
15 Jan 2010
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]
Integration needs to happen. It should be the basis of any residency permit for reasons other than employment. The person has to want to be part of Polish culture, not just live on Polish soil.
I am saying that the two can coexist without one having to become the other.
Integration needs to happen. It should be the basis of any residency permit for reasons other than employment. The person has to want to be part of Polish culture, not just live on Polish soil.
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport to close in September [27]
Completely agreed...even though it is clearly in the AIP, that's not how to tell your customers..
That part goes back to what I was arguing in another thread with regards to quality management (or lack thereof). Baby steps, baby steps. Maybe another 20 years...maybe another 50...
They should have probably told the airlines who use the runway that it is being closed to avoid any problems.
Completely agreed...even though it is clearly in the AIP, that's not how to tell your customers..
That part goes back to what I was arguing in another thread with regards to quality management (or lack thereof). Baby steps, baby steps. Maybe another 20 years...maybe another 50...
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]
Absolutely. Unless they are there only on a work visa...which should ONLY be given if the if the skill isn't available in country, not because the labor is too expensive in the country...
But the Polish person in Ireland does not have to become Irish, he can keep his Polishness.
Absolutely. Unless they are there only on a work visa...which should ONLY be given if the if the skill isn't available in country, not because the labor is too expensive in the country...
convex
15 Jan 2010
Travel / Travel to Silesia (contacts, places to stay?) [8]
And if you want information on the current environment, I'd suggest contacting KGHM. They are the biggest mining company in Poland.
And if you want information on the current environment, I'd suggest contacting KGHM. They are the biggest mining company in Poland.
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]
Yes, I think there should be visa restrictions for transient workers.
If it's a job that can be performed by a local, then it should be performed by a local. Companies that aren't happy with that should relocate and be at the mercy of duties to get their products into the lucrative markets.
If the labor is too expensive, it has to be driven by something. The entire idea of open borders was to bring up the standard of living in all countries. People are now realizing that free movement of labor and goods is equalizing standard of living, dropping it in some countries and raising it in others. Free movement of labor and goods works in an environment where the labor laws are the same, where tax rates are the same, where deductions are the same... it doesn't quite work as implemented. Companies are just hoping from country to country feeding from the tax payer trough. Duties would check that power.
So you think there should be visa restrictions for Polish people going to Ireland, like it was before the E.U?
Yes, I think there should be visa restrictions for transient workers.
As there are Polish living and working in Ireland who do not know much about Irish culture, how would you go about changing that?
If it's a job that can be performed by a local, then it should be performed by a local. Companies that aren't happy with that should relocate and be at the mercy of duties to get their products into the lucrative markets.
And if the labour is too expensive in any country, is that not a bad thing anyway?
If the labor is too expensive, it has to be driven by something. The entire idea of open borders was to bring up the standard of living in all countries. People are now realizing that free movement of labor and goods is equalizing standard of living, dropping it in some countries and raising it in others. Free movement of labor and goods works in an environment where the labor laws are the same, where tax rates are the same, where deductions are the same... it doesn't quite work as implemented. Companies are just hoping from country to country feeding from the tax payer trough. Duties would check that power.
convex
15 Jan 2010
Food / Where to buy Sloe Gin in Warsaw? [9]
Is tarnina easy to find? If so, it's not that difficult to make sloe gin... berries, sugar, and gin...wait a couple of months, imbibe!
You may be able to find the Polish near equivalent -- tarniówka.
Is tarnina easy to find? If so, it's not that difficult to make sloe gin... berries, sugar, and gin...wait a couple of months, imbibe!
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport to close in September [27]
No one is really worried about oil running out, it's just a question of when other technologies become viable price wise. Swiftfuel is looking really nice as a replacement for Avgas, their production costs are dropping like mad. Biofuel is pretty much a 1:1 replacement for JetA... or going the dirty route, we still have massive amounts of coal just waiting to be liquefied...
youtube.com/watch?v=U45BtWJqetM
No one is really worried about oil running out, it's just a question of when other technologies become viable price wise. Swiftfuel is looking really nice as a replacement for Avgas, their production costs are dropping like mad. Biofuel is pretty much a 1:1 replacement for JetA... or going the dirty route, we still have massive amounts of coal just waiting to be liquefied...
youtube.com/watch?v=U45BtWJqetM
convex
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]
A high minimum wage calls for high prices, products as well as labor. Minimum wage that is not harmonized in an area that has free movement of goods and labor will lead to a drop in standard of living for the areas that maintain high minimum wage laws.
I was under the impression that the goal of open borders was to accelerate bringing the new EU countries up to the same level as Western Europe...not to bring standard of living down to the level of Portugal.
The way to build up Poland would be to create a market in Poland. Foreign investments and loans, controlled inflation, harmonization of labor laws, deductions. Even infrastructure investment via distribution of wealth in the form of taxes in rich countries. That's (infrastructure investment) kind of already happening, but it's not presented like that to the people.
The average Pole has managed to get themselves into serious debt over the last 10 years (GDP growth!), that's alright while interest rates are low...
If the objective is to level everything, that's pretty easy. Completely open borders, no tariffs, free movement of labor... Seems pretty easy. If you want to bring the country in question up to the same standard of living, it needs to be done with strategic investment and the creation of internal demand.
Personally, I'd love to see completely free trade without any kind of tariffs. It would bring an end to the current situation of borrowing to consume.
Well take Ireland, it has a very high minimum wage. So some companies have left and some are ending up here in Poland.
A high minimum wage calls for high prices, products as well as labor. Minimum wage that is not harmonized in an area that has free movement of goods and labor will lead to a drop in standard of living for the areas that maintain high minimum wage laws.
I was under the impression that the goal of open borders was to accelerate bringing the new EU countries up to the same level as Western Europe...not to bring standard of living down to the level of Portugal.
The way to build up Poland would be to create a market in Poland. Foreign investments and loans, controlled inflation, harmonization of labor laws, deductions. Even infrastructure investment via distribution of wealth in the form of taxes in rich countries. That's (infrastructure investment) kind of already happening, but it's not presented like that to the people.
The average Pole has managed to get themselves into serious debt over the last 10 years (GDP growth!), that's alright while interest rates are low...
If the objective is to level everything, that's pretty easy. Completely open borders, no tariffs, free movement of labor... Seems pretty easy. If you want to bring the country in question up to the same standard of living, it needs to be done with strategic investment and the creation of internal demand.
Personally, I'd love to see completely free trade without any kind of tariffs. It would bring an end to the current situation of borrowing to consume.
convex
16 Jan 2010
Food / Mother of all hangovers....Polish Beer! [71]
It must be very difficult coming from Belgium to a place where most beer is sold in can form.
Alma and Piotr&Pawel have a decent international selection. Nothing special, but they've got the big Trappist beers.
I'm not much of a fan of lagers, especially the light lagers that are so popular here. I did find a diamond in the mass produced Polish rough, Zywiec makes an excellent porter that is available all over the place. Great winter beer.
Inbev, being the largest brewery in the world, doesn't seem to have anything to say in Poland.
It must be very difficult coming from Belgium to a place where most beer is sold in can form.
Alma and Piotr&Pawel have a decent international selection. Nothing special, but they've got the big Trappist beers.
I'm not much of a fan of lagers, especially the light lagers that are so popular here. I did find a diamond in the mass produced Polish rough, Zywiec makes an excellent porter that is available all over the place. Great winter beer.
convex
16 Jan 2010
Food / Mother of all hangovers....Polish Beer! [71]
The majority of what Europeans drink is watery p*ss, light lager. Hell, if you look up the definition of light lager, you see a picture of watery p*ss. tastes the same everywhere you go because it's all produced by the same couple of companies. Rest assured that the quality of the watery p*ss light lagers are pretty much the same all over Europe.
Normaly our beer is rather better then the watery p*ss they serve in the West also:
The majority of what Europeans drink is watery p*ss, light lager. Hell, if you look up the definition of light lager, you see a picture of watery p*ss. tastes the same everywhere you go because it's all produced by the same couple of companies. Rest assured that the quality of the watery p*ss light lagers are pretty much the same all over Europe.
convex
16 Jan 2010
UK, Ireland / Expired Polish passport; will the English one suffice? [9]
Can Poles travel to and from the UK on an ID card?
Can Poles travel to and from the UK on an ID card?
convex
17 Jan 2010
News / Too much change in Poland?! [25]
I think that the best example of that is the lifespan of a political party. It seems that parties come and go with the election cycles. Parties that once controlled the government just disappear a couple years later.
On the otehr hand, at the official level there is so much change in Poland that the result is instability.
I think that the best example of that is the lifespan of a political party. It seems that parties come and go with the election cycles. Parties that once controlled the government just disappear a couple years later.
convex
17 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / What do Polish people think of the USA [287]
98% of the worlds population believe everything they read, even if it is blatant satire
huffingtonpost.com/steven-shehori/poll-37-of-americans-unab_b_150933.html
scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/pages/Poll-finds-37-percent-of-Americans-unable-to-locate-America-70-percent-unable-to-read%20polls-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side.html
For what it's worth, there are massive hordes of idiots everywhere you go.
I am sorry, but if THIRTY SEVEN percent of a country's population can locate their country on a map, what can you expect fro mthe country?
98% of the worlds population believe everything they read, even if it is blatant satire
huffingtonpost.com/steven-shehori/poll-37-of-americans-unab_b_150933.html
scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/pages/Poll-finds-37-percent-of-Americans-unable-to-locate-America-70-percent-unable-to-read%20polls-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side.html
For what it's worth, there are massive hordes of idiots everywhere you go.
convex
17 Jan 2010
Life / Reasons for moving to Poland [291]
Really? Salaries are pretty much normal for the Benelux and tax rates are fairly high.
Luxemburg
Really? Salaries are pretty much normal for the Benelux and tax rates are fairly high.