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Major investor fumes at Apple

Should have told shareholders about Jobs
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 11:22

ONE OF THE US's most important investors is furious that Apple failed to tell its shareholders how serious Steve Jobs' illness was.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said Apple should have disclosed the seriousness of Jobs' illness, describing it as a "material fact" for shareholders of the company.

Talking to CNBC, he said that if he had any serious illness, or something coming up of an important nature, an operation or anything like that, he would have to tell his company's shareholders about it.

Buffett said that he works for the shareholders and they might think he was important to the company. In the case of Apple, Steve Jobs is important. These sorts of material facts are important to shareholders for making informed decisions, he said.

Apple can get off the hook legally on the matter because there are no guidelines for such disclosures. But saying Jobs was off having hormone replacement treatment when he was having a critical liver transplant instead could be seen as misleading investors.

The financial community is a little sensitive about not being informed about decisions that might hurt their share portfolios, particularly after the financial mistakes that lead to the current economic recession. µ

 

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The Duty of The Liver, The Home Of The Attention

The science which originates from the intellect is an inexact science because it relies soley on objectivity - that which constitutes the "right" [side]. It's such a fusspot that it even denies the science of the "left", that of feelings/subjectivity, of conditioning - the emotions. The left pertains to the past and the right, oka objectivity-projectivity, pertains to the future. These 3 realms [comprising 2 universes] are inexact because not only are they illusory [in-finality], but they are actually very limited in scope when compared to the Whole. A stone is as real as the naked eye could see but with a microscope, more is revealed. Only the science of the present is real/complete because it communicates with that which is inaccesible to the left and the right.

Only that which has both the beginning and the ending is real. This fact extends to all so-called achievements of mankind, much like discoveries and declarations about the origins of man, say. When you do not have the beginning nor the ending but merely what is at hand, you've got nothing other than some "possession is 9th tenths of the law" sort of convolution. The biggest twister is when vapour demands to know and its proof thereof, where solidity is, otherwise, it's not going to be convinced. Of course, vapour is solidity when it changes state but at that moment, it's something else.

When was it that Nature was compelled to convince a chimp what a human is? At every moment - if only the chimp could make sense of the answers - such is the magnamity of Love, whose only duty is to give without judgement/expectation. When there is no such thing as time, only the timing matters for Time is He who pulsates without percussion whilst the rest go with the beat.

The essence of a human being is his Attention and where we take our attention to, that is who or what we are, for the moment. The Attention, called "Essence of Spirit/Divinity/God/Zen" in the Chinese [and this is not a Buddhist/Toaist/Chinese thingy] which "resides" within the liver, is the [only] vehicle for realising one's Evolution. Its main duties are to purify/detoxify the body & the psyche as well as cooling the blood to regulate body & psychic temperature - psychic as in divine and not "the unseen". As we all know, toxify the liver and the attention goes south and yet quackery is willing to exchange pharmacological poisoning for prolonging "life". That's quite an achievement within the context of formula racing qualifying times - "Hell, he lived 2 days longer, what more does he want."

The right-sided liver, which is "timingly" balanced by the spleen-cum-pancreas on the left side, requires sugar to function but diabetes seeks to limit glucose assimilation. The result is another round of macho, gung-ho, objective, direct intervention - a solution control-freaks all over opt for when the time for FFI looms - witness "police" car chases and that's with a helicopter following the wicked, evil xyz. As the chimp observes, "These humans are real loonies, aren't they". It doesn't work but the old FFI exchange mantra is still regurgitated. Medical science/intellect has no choice because it has not realised the existence of spirituality [which actually precedes humanity]. As the saying goes, "The priest will be the last to recognise God [because he is already representing Him]". Similarly, quackery will be the last to allow "Spooky" into their Hall of Truth - but that will change as realised souls become [real] doctors and reinstate sanity.

The main cause of insulin resistant diabetes is fragmentation of The Attention [through worship, oka treating the non-living as living whilst treating the living as non-living], and the Attention is the means by which a human evolves or devoles. Reality has no meaning when humans are the "living-dead" and zombies are those who need excitements to come momentarily alive. Every TD&H is out to get others' attention. If the true status of the Attention is as relayed above, how many more prisons will it take to housed the convicted? More than when thoughts could be read like an opened book.

Most assume that humans cannot exist without thoughts when in Reality, a person is not truly living when he is dwelling within the [lower] mental realms. The gap between sanity and insanity is small because until one is truly living, even a small distraction of the Attention can lead to an addiction be that addiction, anger/guilt, greed/fear, good/bad, right/wrong, science/religion, or masculinity/femininity. The so-called "Omega Gap" between sanity and insanity is avoided when we helix-ed/progresses and not circulate - a higher order in calculus parlance.

It is beyond criminal to damage others' attention by cultivating their self-destructiveness. It is sinful and sin is beyond humanity. It is how Divinity relates to Destruction whilst not forgetting that only those who can create, can destroy. For the rest, there is no real destruction, there is only devolution and the main property of devolution is infinity. A stone is a stone and has no other rhyme nor reason - as dictated by its "vibrations"/timing. So too is cruelty and cunning.

It is benevolent to realise that we, the Attention, are only a tenant to our body. We do not own our body. Without the Attention being intact, we cannot evolve and without evolution, devolution is the only course. Devolution means we are merely existing and when a human lacks true spirit/joy [not excitements], he is only existing for "others". Ask any organ transplant patient how he feels about his "new" organ, and spooky won't be the word - "Other's" is. As quackery pumps-up the potions [and zer bills, ja?], New Man keeps feeling, "I don't quite feel like myself". Buffet Man would go orbital [Virgin who?] should he realised what an "altered" attention really means. It means that the "new" will be constantly tussling with the "old".

Intellect, oka The Ego, has one self-limiting/protecting aspect and that is the ability to cheat itself. It has to or else the ego will disappear. Seen anyone who is not out to destroy himself, excused as destroying [the evil in] others? Really? Not even God, should He/She exists, is saying so but a mere thinker won't mind declaring so. Is that stupidity, idiocy or merely Ignorance or perhaps it is the ability to cheat itself. And beyond the acceptacne [and thence rejection or vice-versa] of one's true position, why is there no will power to change? Because we cannot see beyond our own weaknesses - we do not realise that there is a God/Divinity/something-beyond other than to believe or disbelieve.

As Shakespeare alluded to, "There are more things on heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy [oka thoughts]". Every thinker is out to damage/capture the other's Attention, especially on aspects that are seemingly beyond, much like this lengthy diatribe. Information is neuter/innocence when it seeks only to inform with no FFI pretentions/expectations.

Connectivity Footnote
The 7 stages of Evolution, which is the reverse of Creation, are, subjectivity, objectivity, projectivity, spirituality, humanity, divinity through thoughtlessness and divinty through doubtlessness. Beyond that is Divinity/Infinity per se. The return-journey/Resurrection of Dust back towards The Big Bang is conducted exclusively through the summit of creation, the human being, and is "played-out" only on Earth, regardless of belief, agreement, knowledge, or otherwise. The unrealised, oka the "living-dead", might have no voice within Reality but they have the same opportunity to be-a-part-of/reflect Reality. As related to Arjuna by Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita, "Who are you killing when they are already dead?"

Even though humans have not evolved further than projectivity and did nothing to arrived at their present [3rd] stage, all the other stages have been potentialised/potentiated. They are all there waiting for us. At the stage of projectivity, we are able to think through being gifted the power of true speech which then confers true language [and thoughts are only possible with language]. By being able to intellectualise, to project thoughts about the future, we are able to act against Nature/Divinity/one-Self. The reason for this [seemingly] contradictory-proposition/juxtaposition is due to the fact that in order to realised spirituality and beyond, we have to have freedom/thoughts whilst not forgetting that true freedom is about true maturity, oka morality [and not moralising]. Having the freedom to be enslaved/nonsensical is not freedom, it is merely abandonment, oka addiction. In Truth, Freedom means the ability to witness one's errors AND forgive oneself to reach one's Self. It doesn't mean grooming others' abandonments for a life of gadgetry/sophistry/ideology/etc. Without exception, we cannot damage others without having damaged our Self first.

All are born equal because all have a spirit [the true Father at the "upper" pyramid/prism] and an evolving/germinating force [the true Mother at the "lower" pyramid/prism, the true master of gravity for to ascend, the living has to overcome gravity] reflected within - even Hitler or some ferrite-core woman are so endowed. One's true Mother, variously known as The Holy Ghost, Ruh, Athena, Kundalini, Tao, and much more, gifts us our second birth/self-realisation and it is She who then guides us towards meeting with our true Father [in heaven/upper pyramid]. Love [the Almighty] is the desire of/for Divinity.

How ever the above may sound or look, be it airy-fairy, homeo-scientific-religious, or whatever nonsense the imagination can conjure, do not judge/accept-reject what's being relayed. Acceptance, empowerment through femininity, leads to guilt & fear, and rejection, emnpowerment through masculinity, leads to anger & greed. Should there be the desire for Reality, it will be gifted for the Blossom Time is here. To blossom, a tree has to be mature, to have no guilt/fear/sense of femininity nor does it has anger/greed/sense of masculinity. Retrieve and reintegrate the Attention and do not allow it to be [easily] distracted, tarnished and captured. Negativity/Destruction is all around for Its task is to separate those who will evolve and those who will not. Devolution cannot be destroyed without, it can only be avoided [through the potentials] within - unlike the "avoidance" [of getting caught] mantra creative accountants, "entertainers", and scamsters chant every moment of their buzzing minds.

posted by : achtung, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Ha!

In your face Drashek.

posted by : Al Overa, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Holy...

...comment length Batman!! a comment 3 times as long as the actual article O__O

posted by : Astro, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
misnomer

there is no such thing as a"financial community"

posted by : HHN, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Is Buffet Two Faced?

I believe Warren Buffet had cataract surgery just recently. Did he disclose this? Sure a bit less dramatic than liver transplant - but the dude is 70. Something could have happened to him on the surgery room table.

“You know, I had cataract surgery in my left eye last month, and I thought that might help me see the green shoots. But I still don’t really see any”

http://epiphanyinvesting.com/2009/06/24/highlights-from-warren-buffett-interview-on-cnbc/

posted by : JPO, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Who cares what Buffet thinks!

Are we supposed to feel sorry for Warren? How much does he figure he lost by not knowing? "Look, I could have made $25m dollars and I only made $3m!" Prat

posted by : gomu, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Buffet and the author have the facts wrong

Neither Apple nor Jobs lied to the public. While he had stated at one point that the doctors told him his problems were due to "a hormone imbalance," he subsequently followed that up with another statement saying their opinion had changed and "things are more complicated than we thought," soon before announcing his medical leave.

You may accuse him of not being forthcoming, but, at no point did he lie or mislead.

posted by : Tim, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Meh

Never mind. The share price has gone through the roof since Jobs took leave and handed over the reigns to Cook.

posted by : El Lizardo, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Dork

So, let me get this straight. Jobs was forced to take a 6 month leave of absence from his job for medical reasons and Buffett thinks somehow that that alone doesn't indicate the threat to his health was serious?!? How do I get a job working for him, his time off policy must be insane.

posted by : jsk, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
More to the point...

Since when was any Company less important then it's CEO?? Granted I'm hardly versed in Apples' History, but it seems clear to me that if it weren't for Woz there wouldn't have been an Apple to begin with.

Basically, I suppose I'm asking the Staff of the Inq. to run an Article about Steve Jobs and why anyone should give less then a toss about him??

(It would make a good read!)

In short WTF is so great about Mr. Jobs and why couldn't Apple fair any better (or worse) without him??

posted by : Anonymouse, 25 June 2009 Complain about this comment
The writer is a moron

Warren Buffet was as far from "furious" as it gets. He did answer that Jobs probably should have let the shareholders know about his surgery, but he was almsot indifferent about it. He wasn't angry and sure as hell wasn't "furious"..

I'm really starting to hate this sensationalist shit just to get page hits.. If you can't generate traffic with good articles, then you shouldn't be writing.

posted by : looselycoupled, 26 June 2009 Complain about this comment
@acthung

I was reading your comment thinking it maybe some part of the Apple EULA

posted by : Inflatable Girlfriend, 26 June 2009 Complain about this comment
5 mins back

I want my minutes back from reading this article and all the comments.

Life isn't fair Warren, you have least to complain about.

posted by : Hok, 26 June 2009 Complain about this comment
@Inflatable Girlfriend

The reason for your thoughts is because I think this is Von Drashek brother... :p

posted by : Q, 26 June 2009 Complain about this comment
Re: achtung

That has to be the biggest pile of utter steaming bull (I really can't believe I read it) since the last Apple press release claiming something.

posted by : stunned, 26 June 2009 Complain about this comment
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