At last, a reasonable question and expressed opinion that leaves out most of the hyperbole and baseless fabrications that usually rule this board!
Of course the silence is unpleasant and undesired. It's gone on long enough that most previous information we had no longer carries much weight for a current evaluation. There's nothing readily available (although, as always, some effort tactfully and unobtrusively applied can yield useful information) to make an evaluation at this point, IMO.
While I don't like the silence any more than most, I can still see several different reasonable scenarios on how it came to be that the silence has lasted so long... all based on common business occurrances and circumstances. It can be a bit like submarine tracking... if you don't know where it is now, you can always go back to the target's last confirmed location/status and extrapolate a little from there, or perhaps take it a little further using statistics or known common patterns.
In other words, I can look at where Hemi was last we were hearing anything substantial, and come up with some very likely connecting points that COULD have produced the path they seem to have followed to get to today. Don't know if I'm right or not, but I do believe it presents a more likely and more reasonable theory than the emotional rantings of people who are angry over having made choices that caused them to lose money (or their relative's money). I also believe that more rational theories assist in better recognizing opportunities with HMGP as they arise, to perhaps undo the some of the effects of those erroneous choices.
I get endless harrasment simply for refusing to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and refusing to nurture a hateful, bitter attitude toward Hemi. I get all sorts of words attributed to me that I never said, and attitudes and beliefs pinned on me that are nothing like my actual attitudes and beliefs.
My point is actually pretty simple: level heads will prevail, and the "K.I.S.S" view point that I've always held goes right along with what others have said before about "the simplest explanation is more often than not, the right one". The simplest explanations I can think of, that also fall within the realm of what could actually reasonably occur, do not change Hemi's current situation and status... but it does make it a whole lot easier to continue with some clear thought and strategy from day to day... as opposed to doing like some and waking up each day, repeating the same negative, pessimistic rhetoric, self-promotion, and blame-shifting over and over and over again.
If I were seeing HMGP for the first time, not having witnessed it's last 4 year's history, I could make arguments both ways... either buying or not.
It would be easy to say that the odds favor an improvement. That the current status has gone on so long that the pendulum HAS to swing the other way pretty soon.
On the other hand, one could just as easily convince themselves that the current status will continue.
It's a crap shoot. There are no outward, current indications (especially if one is wise enough to avoid stock discussion boards altogether) that give a potential investor much of a clue. It would come down to individual investment philosophies, preferred strategies and where Hemi may or may not fit into that.
If I were just seeing Hemi for the first time right now, I'd probably stick it on my radar and keep an eye on it, with the rationale that I can always jump in quickly if something interesting starts to happen. It may not result in the absolute biggest possible profit in the end, but still enough of one if I make the correct choices in general. Meanwhile, I can't lose money just by watching.
But alas, I am already in/still in. Pragmatic, clear, simple strategy is needed... and a LOT of patience. I've got plenty to last me for quite a while. I've got no reason to give up my shares any time soon.