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It seems the wealthy early investors in Jobs' Mob view Apple as a sort of benign dictatorship - with the news that the turtlenecked one is taking medical leave severely impacting shares.
Last week, Apple shares hit a record high. Following Jobs' announcement, AAPL shares, reports the Wall Street Journal, slumped as deep as 6.5 percent, potentially wiping $20 billion from market value.
After the slip, stockholders received slight respite as they realised that this isn't quite the End Daze, and Jobs' liver is not Kalki - rebounding and then falling again by 3.7 percent to $335.63. Still, year on year that's up four percent from the 2010 shut down point at 322.56.
The heretic Ballmer would probably disagree with saintly Apple's idea that it is the most valuable technology company in the world, but the Wall Street Journal reports that the market cap is at $308 billion keeping it as top dog.
Talking to Murdoch's financial mag, Needham analyst Charlie Wolf says now's a good time to buy because the long term game is, in his eyes, pretty much the same. Apple's financial gusto is thanks to its "ability to redefine markets and industries going forward". Not backward - we thought the Egyptians were fond of tablets too, but it's true you couldn't shoot birds at fortified pigs on them.
According to Wolf, whether Jobs floats around the periphery or stays the cultish figurehead, Apple will be ok. TechEye's Nick Farrell thinks he should take care not to become the first true media martyr of, yes, consumer electronics.
Early investors shouldn't be worried in the slightest, Goldmine Sex analyst Bill Shope tells the publication. Remember: "Apple's multiple of 15.1 times earnings represents a significant historical discount, and we see no direct risk to earnings from this move." For now though, Apple's dosh could be "partially distributed to shareholders to stabilise the shares".
We never thought we'd say it but the industry is treating Jobs as a Titoesque figure - transforming the pale white underdog computer into a prosperous project, and without him at the masthead fans, investors and the press are worried it'll turn to pot. Analysts seem to agree: take a breather and it'll be alright.
The public will stay enamoured by the gizmos for some time to come.
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Assuming that the above fairytale is true, the liver, oka The Seat of The Attention, the individual’s real self and not his name, achievement and other imaginations/illusions-cum-delusions, is one’s activity, normally excused as creativity [of sorts]. The right side/sympathetic nervous system has two “personalities”, that of materialism and intellect. The material offers comfort to those who cannot perceive further than what they could hang onto and the intellect offers the means to imaginations about the future, oka analysing, plotting and planning. The balance between these two right-sided personalities should be maintained before venturing further to be balanced with the left side, one’s emotional/conditional.
When we perform an activity [as opposed to non-activity on the left], The Attention is called upon to be futuristic and when activity becomes over-activity, alarm bells start ringing to cater for the additional strain and the aortic goes into over-drive with hundreds upon hundreds of instantaneous systems gearing up to cater for the demand - as in finger-pointing, online or personal shooting, getting one up on thy neighbour, bearing false witness against thy neighbour [how quaint and medieval], gunning for that “ass”, and/or planning, plotting for the next release of the next mesmeric toy and gadget. A few hours of such activity is OK and proper/real sleep will see to one’s restoration but when over-activity becomes addictive as in “Achievement”, the aortic goes into out-of-character mode as it plunders for the stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys and whatever one may squeeze out of the stone/d.
Thereafter, liver problems arise like allergies, hot tempers, funny fats and fatties oka chhoolessteralling, over-sensitivity to all and sundry as in, “Und vy ist zat not done zist vay, ja, you dumkoff?”, and this theme is carried over to the pancreas, the spleen and soon, diabetes looms - diabetes is the result of too much intellectual/futuristcally-”mental” activity which is why those who are not born that way like the “under-derveloped [to be constantly over-sensitive to “others”] but are forced to start futurising, ” gets “hit” very quickly. And should the prospect still over does the activity bit as in “multi-tasking” like catching up on the “stock” portfolio/Swiss-accounts whilst defecating, eating breakfast whilst getting dress and instructing one’s minions to “buy”/“sell” and listening/opinating to the early “News”, the spleen, which Quckery removes as a matter of convenience during an opportunistic “sugery”/butchery session, goes crazy - “Sorry master, what do you want to do, defecate or eat”. Funny had it not be very true. Should this maverick and successful nut-cum-screw continues on with this course of multi-tasking, the spleen venting will turn into leukemia. Just do a seach on spleen removal vs leukemia records. Shock will not be the word but compensation is. “Prove eet, you nut … .. Next”.
Perhaps the above is enough fairytales for the day. Wonder what is the going cost for a/another liver transplant, oka saviourship at its second highest, the first being heart transplants. Eets good to be rich and a saviour, oka a rich saviour [there being no poor saviours], whilst not forgetting that wealth is auspiciousness which confers peace, satisfaction and love/benevolence - the real ones and not the imagined varieties. That which is truly living has no cost, oka priceless, and is always free whereas to turn the living into the living-dead costs - “Mucho, buoss”. Perhaps 308 beeleons is worth a real compatible liver, the one which does not need saviourship to dumb-down through pillage, butchery and immortalising. The day when the connection between behaviours and the physiology is confirmed is the day when good health becomes truly free which is also the day when Quackery & Handler begins justifying and not demanding [to be worshipped/tributes]. When there is insanity, however, that day is questionable - for the intellectuals/futurists. There are no rights & wrongs when the realisation of Truth is lacking, there is only Gambling, the hallmark of The Bookie.