One reason for quarterly reporting is that it gives greater transparency and insight into how a business actually works. Many businesses are seasonal. Most obviously, virtually all retail has its best quarter at the end of the calendar year. But many other types of businesses have key cycles each year that are tied to, for example, the buying habits of their largest customers. Suppliers matter, too; if farms have a bad quarter due to weather or other factors, for example, you're going to want to watch how that impacts food producers somewhere down the line.

Cracking down on Big Pharma without actually doing anything to help America get healthier is totally on brand for the worst Kennedy in history.

The irony of your sarcasm is it actually *is* horrible.

Water is good - necessary even - but too much water will kill you. Choice is the exact same way - it's entirely possible to have too much of it, as much as that contradicts an ethos buried deeply in the American id.

Lol, so many of the posts here reek of bitter developers who have clearly never worked in the halls of quality software engineering

Well, somebody recommended them to me. At high doses, too.

I remember hearing, years ago, that the EU no longer recommends beta blockers as a first-line treatment for hypertension (high blood pressure) for a similar reason: They don't seem to do anything. Sure, they lower your blood pressure numbers, but (as I recall) the meta-study showed no appreciable difference in outcomes. That is, people who received beta blockers experienced the same number of heart attacks, strokes, and other hypertension-related problems as the group that didn't take them.

yeah well, everything sounds simple to people who don't quite understand the nature of the actual problem, but here's a hint:

The next day after your "simple solution": "FTC sues Google claiming that it is identifying their non-political party emails as political party emails"

"It's as if the people reporting the news don't care about being consistent"

That's just an astoundingly stupid thing to say. I don't even know where to begin with that.

Why wouldn't you just turn OneDrive off? I mean, I get it, stubborn master of your computer stuff, but honestly, you're just making shit difficult for yourself. Just turn it off.

"Usually to my desktop."

Oh my.

It's adorable you seem to think the experience of home/prosumer users is that of enterprise deployments/users.

I would argue that cruelty is the point.

Real question: What would be the point of that? Even hoarded gold would have no value if nobody but a select group of people could do anything with it.

Somebody needs a brain transplant.

(It's you, by the way. One from a pig - or really any animal - would be an improvement.)

This country's government is designed to have checks and balances on power. Congress isn't supposed to rubber-stamp every suggestion the President makes about spending -- they're the ones in charge of those decisions. Judges, particularly at the highest levels, aren't supposed to be partisan stooges; they're supposed to follow the law, but that doesn't seem to be what we have now. Nobody outside of the executive seems to want to exert their power, for fear of losing it. Apparently, it's enough to be able to claim having it.