Because for them, as any other industry with a few decades of history, TI is nothing but a replacement of paper, ink and mail.

Drawings, memos, invoices... all of these were paper 30 years ago, and they got stacked in a warehouse. A fire was a real threat, but what can you do? The original was the original, and a copy of an invoice doesn't have the same valor than the true original (you can see the culture of the original in all its glory in courts, where I've seen a judge ask for the true original email sent to prove the copy wasn't tampered).

Nowadays people still work the same ways. Tradition has a lot of inertia, and doing backups is not part of that tradition.

Clearly you're not european.
Judges don't give a shit about what other country's judges say.

You know where the swarms in books leads... Just dont let any shadow touch you.

Yep, they worry about soccer.

You're not spanish, or if you are, you're in denial. Spain had our laws and constitution stomped a week ago and nobody gave a damn. Had our worker rights ripped apart and nobody gave a damn. Our politics are a wealthy elite and the crisis don't touch them, but nobody-give-a-damn!

BUT, if you touch a local soccer team or closes music or video downloads, hell breaks loose.

This is Spain, and that's the reality in Spain.

The citizen awareness was high because the sharing webpages closed showing the notice of the intent of the government of passing the law as a 'petty topic' so it could approve it without public discussion.

That raised protest, a DDoS attack to the web pages of ALL politic groups, a flood of emails and calls to the politics, and so on. That incidents produced some notices in national media that raised more the awareness of the public opinion.

At last, the politic groups was intimidated. The situation in Spain is critical, with a 20% of unemployment and a brutal credit crunch. So a high unpopular law as that could 'spark' some unrest.

You probably wouldn't tell appart cat from rabbit in a stew.

Yes: Napster.

Dont!
We're sailing fast to fiscal bankruptcy. You don't want to stay near Spain when the situation explodes.
The future for Spain is very uncertain, but oscillates between Somalization and Police State.

Maybe the argument is: "Someone who we were told was nuts turned out to be right. Therefore, this other person who we are told is nuts maybe also is right."
And taking in account the people who says they are nuts is the same people who have more to lose if it's true...

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these. On sharks!

I for one welcome etc, etc...

By the way, does it run linux?

Give her attention, don't think of her as your personal servant, and in general, survive. Nothing less, nothing more...

Copyright notices, EULAs, DRM engines, w98 & XP for retrocompatibility... and a pr0n video of Ballmer and a chair. 6 hours, HD, Harcore. The mother of the easter eggs.

$4.25/Watt-peak, not Watt. It's not the same.

Also, the Nuke power plant gives 1.2gW constant. Day and night. Sunny or rainy.

Not quite a good comparison.

We actively change our environment to our benefit. We light the night, warm our houses, deforest our countries, mine our resources...

The argument of "it's natural" is stupid. If it's natural, modify nature. We are constantly doing it.
Why? Because this change does NOT benefit us.
So, nature doesn't want to change (or we don't know how to coerce her)?
Well, at least don't help the change!

Let's hope they nail it for Windows 28... or Windows 496... or 8128...