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• Although Poles suffer official censorship, a pervasive secret police and laws similar to those in the USSR
  here are thousands of underground publications, a legal independent Church, private agriculture, and the East bloc's first and only independent trade union federation, NSZZ Solidarnosc, which is an affiliate of both the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labor....
• Poland has gun control.
• When in Poland do as Poles do.
• A new Sports Stadium was completed in Warsaw, Poland, recently.
  There have been a large number of complaints about the design, since no matter where you are seated, you are seated behind a Pole....
• A Polish worker walks into a bank to deposit his paycheck.
  He has heard about Poland's economic problems, and he asks what would happen to his money if the bank collapsed....
• Linux Dominates Academic Research A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects.
  Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers....
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• ode n. 1. [Internet, UUCP] A host machine on the network.
  2. [MS-DOS BBSes] A dial-in line on a BBS. Thus an MS-DOS sysop might say that his BBS has 4 nodes even though it has a single machine and no Internet link, confusing an Internet hacker no end....
• MUD /muhd/ n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.
  Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet....