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'I'm not dying - I've just got a hormone imbalance': Steve Jobs quashes rumours of serious illness
dailymail.co.uk ^ | January 5, 2009 | Mail Foreign Service

Posted on 01/05/2009 11:47:55 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Swordmaker

Ping.


21 posted on 01/05/2009 1:21:25 PM PST by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Jmouse007

Re: profit losses and hiding the truth

Baloney! Firstly, the criminal sanctions (up to 20 years imprisonment and multi-million dollar personal fines) for officers and Board members of publicly traded companies makes your theory a non-starter. Secondly, Apple’s profits have little to do with the value of their stock. If any Apple officer were party to such a cover-up, they’d essentially be stripped of the jobs, holdings, assets, and imprisoned The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law made sure of that.

For all of you that are hinting at AIDS, the hormonal imbalance is a side effect of the “Whipple” procedure surgery—where the cancerous portion of one’s pancreas is excised—which cured Jobs of the Pancreatic Cancer four years ago. AIDS is not in the picture.


22 posted on 01/05/2009 2:55:33 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Yaelle

Everyone I knew with pancreatic cancer lost tons of weight too......

Jobs did not have the usual pancreatic cancer. It was on the surface of the pancreas or something like that. Google will give you a more accurate description


23 posted on 01/05/2009 3:31:29 PM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: Swordmaker

As far ss the legalities, I stand... er sit, corrected. That said, from the look of him I still say the guy looks like he is dying and that can’t be good for Apple company profits.


24 posted on 01/05/2009 3:50:56 PM PST by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hope he feels better soon.


25 posted on 01/05/2009 3:51:43 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Jmouse007; Swordmaker

I wouldn’t be so cynical.

Pancreatic cancer has traditionally been a death sentence but there have been advances in a road to a cure. I wish the man all good luck. He is a true American treasure ... a REAL innovator in a world that throws that word around lightly.


26 posted on 01/05/2009 3:55:02 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Chickensoup
>what do you mean?

Because Steve Jobs is
famous (in the business world)
for being a pr#ck,

even though he's sick
with a terrible illness
I was making jokes.

27 posted on 01/05/2009 3:59:25 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: Lil'freeper

Interesting development


28 posted on 01/05/2009 4:00:38 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: Jmouse007
Sadly he is either delusional or both he and the company are so concerned about profit losses that they are lying to the public and their share holders in order to hide the truth.

I don't know the truth here but Apple's stock (AAPL) has been bouncing around with every press release and rumor. They may well have decided to stabilize it for at least awhile by issuing this statement.

Apple was up 5% today as a result.

29 posted on 01/05/2009 4:03:28 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So many Internet doctors, so few patients!


30 posted on 01/05/2009 4:04:17 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Don't rush to be savage!.)
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To: theFIRMbss

different kind of Jobs


31 posted on 01/05/2009 4:07:22 PM PST by nufsed
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To: BunnySlippers
He is a true American treasure ... a REAL innovator in a world that throws that word around lightly.

That's just it. As major a player as Apple is, the market perceives it as a one-man show. And it's stock price, in the 90's, is supremely vulnerable in this era of "cash is king" should that "One man" falter.

32 posted on 01/05/2009 4:07:53 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

I’m not disagreeing.

I hope the company maintains its integrity one day without him. But last time he left, the company nearly died.


33 posted on 01/05/2009 4:12:00 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought it was nonsense, until I read he had part of his pancreas taken out.

This not only messes up your insulin, but removes the enzymes needed to digest food...there is a treatment, which is to take the digestive enzymes by mouth...but the diabetes caused by the procedure can be hard to control...


34 posted on 01/05/2009 10:21:28 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: 1234; 50mm; 6SJ7; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; aristotleman; af_vet_rr; Aggie Mama; ...
There is more interest in Steve Jobs' health than in Barack Obama's birthplace... and more theories... PING!


"Is he gone yet?" Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

35 posted on 01/05/2009 10:52:00 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, we’ve all got it comin’...


36 posted on 01/06/2009 11:03:25 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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