Son, you don't know piss-all about how and why businesses give money to political parties do you? Read your own post and ask "why are they doing it that way"?.
rubato thought to himself as he stared at his likeness in the cracked mirror.
The last night had been one of intoxication and violent self-incrimination.
The previous evening had started off normally, a few slugs of cheap gin poured over ice into massive tumblers purchased at the local gas station down the hill. A fine confusion overtook the rube. Memories of a distant past when things actually mattered. Now they didn't. Life was a mockery of its former orderly self. The periodic table no longer spoke its magic. The beaker full of a strange mixture rubato had concocted earlier in the day had kicked in.
Dr. Shulgin was right.......ingest at your own risk.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Russia, United Kingdom, United States [He lives right near me in Orinda, CA]
Citizenship
United States (1925– Present)
Fields
Chemistry, Psychology, Philosophy, Biology
Institutions
M.A.P.S.
Dow Chemical
San Francisco State University
San Francisco General Hospital
Bio-Rad Laboratories Cognitive Liberty / Ethics Centre
United States Navy
Alma mater
Harvard University
University of California at Berkeley
Known for
Rediscovering MDMA
2C Family
DOx Family
PiHKAL
TiHKAL
Shulgin Rating Scale
Various phenethylamines & tryptamines
Notable awards
D.E.A. Awards (numerous)
Spouse
Ann Shulgin (1981–Present)
Alexander "Sasha" Theodore Shulgin[1] (born June 17, 1925) is an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Shulgin is credited with introducing MDMA ("ecstasy") to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use. He discovered, synthesized, and bioassayed over 230 psychoactive compounds, and evaluated them for their psychedelic and/or entactogenic potential.
In 1991 and 1997, he and his wife Ann Shulgin authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL, extensively describing their work and personal experiences with these psychoactive drugs, subdivided into two classes of organic compounds - phenethylamines and tryptamines. Shulgin performed seminal work into the descriptive synthesis of many of these compounds. Some of Shulgin's noteworthy discoveries include compounds of the 2C* family (such as 2C-B) and compounds of the DOx family (such as DOM).
Due in part to Shulgin's extensive work in the field of psychedelic research and the rational drug design of psychedelic drugs, he has since been dubbed the "godfather of psychedelics".[2]
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
And if you bothered to learn piss-all about anything you wouldn't have to engage in this kind of bullshit to rescue your ego when you you make no fucking sense.
Go the the FEC website and research business-based PACs. Learn something instead of making useless jackass smartass comments.
rubato wrote:And if you bothered to learn piss-all about anything you wouldn't have to engage in this kind of bullshit to rescue your ego when you you make no fucking sense.
rubato wrote:And if you bothered to learn piss-all about anything you wouldn't have to engage in this kind of bullshit to rescue your ego when you you make no fucking sense.
Go the the FEC website and research business-based PACs. Learn something instead of making useless jackass smartass comments.
yrs,
rubaot [who?]
No I don't have the need to "rescue my poor ego" as some do here.
I don't have to constantly remind all here how rich I am (thanks to my wife), nor what supposed good taste I have in food, wine, film, art, or whatever the bullshit du jour.
You are (unwittingly, I might add) the BUTT of part of this thread in which I used the good Professor Shulgin as a vehicle.
Learn to take yourself a tad lesss seriousley or pissss off!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
And if you bothered to learn piss-all about anything you wouldn't have to engage in this kind of bullshit to rescue your ego when you you make no fucking sense.
Oh dear oh dear...
When I think of all the occasions when you would have been so well advised to have followed your own advice...
There goes another irony meter....
ETA:
So long as rube continues to express himself publicly, he will single-handedly guarantee that the Irony Meter manufacturing business will remain nearly as recession proof as the funeral parlor business....
What is mind-boggling to me is that Joe Guy and I were originally arguing about WalMart. Both of us made our point with out resorting to a personal attacts or name-calling.
rubato stumbles into the exchange between Joe Guy and myself and starts with the put downs. Ironically he and I were on the same side of the aruguement!
Even when I attempt to defuse the exchange with a little humor, the clod still doesn't get it!
WTF?
Is this chump DENSE or what?.....U-235 ain't got nothing on the Klown form Sta. Kruz!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
Basically it boils down to we (taxpayers, customers, hell everyone) either "subsidize" WalMart workers through higher taxes (foodstamps, housing alotments, ect) OR we pay more for WalMart goods so that they can earn a livable wage (which has yet to be determined). Either way "we" all pay.
I do not blame (or fault) the owners/creators of WalMart (or any other company) for trying maximizing their profits. They started the company and took all the risk and now they reap the benefits of having built a successful company. It would be nice to give everyone who works there a raise but I don't see where a "mandate" to raise salaries should be hoisted on WalMart (or any other company). Companies (small and large) need to make a profit (or at least break even sometimes) or else they cease to exist and the jobs they provide also cease to exist.
At what point does the responsibility shift to the worker? Some jobs are "starter" or "supplemental" jobs where one works to make (extra) spending money and are not meant to be a career or ones only source of income. These jobs usually require no/little skill other than to show up for your shift and perform the minimum required be it stocking shelves, folding clothes on the tables, whatever. I don't think these types of jobs are intended to be a lifelong "career" as they are low/no skill employment. But even in these jobs there is a chance/opportunity for advancement (and higher wage). But those opportunities are not going to be offered to the employee who only shows up on time and does only what is minimally required. Those chances are going to go to those who go above and beyond what is asked.
Any person who stays in the same job/title for 11 years and has not advanced their situation has themselves to blame (IMHO)
