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Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health
i4u writes "Rumors about Steve Jobs' health have been flying high again after Apple announced that he will not be holding the keynote at the Macworld 2009. Today Steve Jobs issued a letter with a rather personal update on why he was losing weight in 2008. The reason for losing weight in 2008 is a hormone imbalance that has been reducing proteins. The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward according to Jobs.
Steve and his doctors predict that he will have normal weight again by Spring. So stop the rumors and enjoy Macworld 2009."
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"As a for your information on"?
It was a fairly clever sketch, but the first gag for me was the perhaps unintentional joke that Americans don't know how to properly pronounce "Iraq".
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Oh yeah, well lets see you pronounce Ohio, Tehachapi, and Mississippi.
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I didn't ask about your personal life, but about place names.
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How? Please read up on what a Cult of Personality [wikipedia.org] actually is before making broad statements and changing what people actually said to support your wild conclusions.
I actually never mentioned "Cult of Personality" in the paragraph you quoted. I was talking about cult-like or mythical thinking. And that's exactly what you demonstrated in your "I can see through it" bullshit diatribe.
Once again, learn what a cult of personality is
Since you're such an expert on cults of personality - why would you describe Apple this way? Apple doesn't resemble anything of the definition you linked to. And by the way, I was using "creative license" in my reply to you. Maybe you should look that up? I said you had a cult of anti-personality, because you seem to believe that anything that is popular must be non-authentic, or corrupt in some way.
I said, its people who don't have the intelligence or discipline to learn (perhaps I should have said those who cant think for themselves) tend to become enamoured with an image or person.
So, what does that have to do with Apple, since it's not a cult of personality, and there are many valid technical reasons to choose the platform?
What I said primarily comes from the fact that I don't like being lumped in with a group that feels that it needs to be someone else or requires a charismatic leader to give their lives purpose or definition.
Again, what does any of this have to do with Apple? people like the products, they don't buy because Steve Jobs told them to.
A cult of anti-personality is an oxymoron.
How so? You seem to be distrustful of anybody that is charismatic, or things that are popular. So, you worship the stance that you are beyond emotion and charismatic manipulation, to the extent that you are actually affected by charisma in a reflexive way.
... and then they built the supercollider.