False. Visa and MasterCard also got bent, but weren't there to show their displeasure. Most of those cards were loaned, and you cost the card companies money by your actions.
How do you square that with your self-righteousness?
Hmm, as the victim of CC fraud, I really don't have a problem with it at all. Especially seeing as the police won't do anything unless an individual incident is over 2K. So, I find it quite easy to sleep.
If the card is loaned or not, according to the last agreement I read, I was responsible for making sure that the signature on the back of the card matched the one on the receipt. If MC or Visa ate the loss on CC fraud, I wouldn't worry about making sure it's a valid sale. As long as it's the business that has to eat all the fraud costs, I say error on the side of caution.
Mastercard will actually fine you if you ask for ID or post minimum purchase amounts. Visa isn't as aggressive (in my experience) but can do the same thing if they get a bug up their butt.
The back of my card explicitly says check ID with no signature. I've had people calmly compare that to my signature and hand it back to me.
As the person behind the counter, I've asked for ID many times - usually because the signature doesn't look right. The only people I've had get bent have been the ones trying to use a stolen/loaned card.
The OJ situation wasn't a great one to bring up in this regard; he was found not guilty, yes, but also liable for their deaths. It was basically a split decision.
Criminally, OJ was found not guilty. In Civil court he was found liable. Huge difference.
Actual cases I've seen that mirror that decision include one where a teen cut through a fence, broke through a door, cut off a lock, then climbed a silo & fell to his death. The silo owner was cleared of criminal negligence (criminal) but found liable for the death (civil). Once you figure out how to prevent that ruling, get back to me on civil suits having any meaning.
In criminal cases, it's the state against the accused. In civil cases, it's the poor, suffering victims against the evil SOB that did them wrong. Besides, it's only money after all, it's not like it's someone's life at stake. Jurors react very differently in the 2 types of cases and jury selection is a different art in the 2 types of trials.
As an aside, since there is a distinction between slander (spoken) and libel (written), how would either technically apply to internet posts, as they are neither spoken or fixed to paper in a permanent form?
News reports on TV & radio are subject to libel suits as the report is permanently recorded. The law isn't quite so lithic as to exclude new forms of permanent recording.
Feel free to say it, however be prepared to be sued for slander.
You can say "I still think he's guilty." without fear of legal action. However simply stating that "he is guilty" is a supposed statement of fact - contrary to a previous poster who indicated that all statements are implied to begin with "I believe".
Realistically, I think they are worried about audio book sales. I know lots of commuters that churn through a lot of audio books. The read-aloud feature of the Kindle might make a dent in those sales.
I doubt it. I've used speech to text software before - and after about 10 minutes it's annoying as all hell. There's no inflection and it's enough to either put you to sleep or make you shut the damn thing off just to get some quiet.
The only people who are going to be happy about TtS are the blind/vision impaired who can't read it by themselves.
Back when I was doing programming for the Mac (OS 5-8 in Pascal) they had the resource fork & the data fork. The cool bit was it was perfectly legitimate to build an array of records then save it into the resource fork as binary data. Restart the program & it can reload the array without having to rebuild the array.
As to the point, fopen() pulls in a specific file, however you then need to know if that file is read only, write only, read/write capable etc. With GetReference(Obj) you don't need to worry about that. Obj->write will fail if it's tagged as invalid. As will Obj->read.
To drop to bad psuedo code for populating an array from a stored state:
$text = new Array;
$th = fopen('filename','r');
$text = split(fread($th),'\n');
fclose($th);
Becomes:
$text = new GetReference("Document");
The advantage is that I don't need to know that "Document" is an array Object, because the OS/language already does. It's not amazingly useful for things like a text file, but if you're able to reference a complex data structure without having to interpret it you can pull a lot of stunts - including sharing the reference between threads even if the threads are running on different machines in a cluster.
The biggest point of the project is to force you away from the linear process of using a file and towards conceiving of everything as an Object.
As long as tjey don't give the impression that this is legal, whether infringements can be effectively prosecuted or not, I don't see that estoppel applies.
IANAL also - however, estoppel doesn't have to give the impression that it's legal, only that they won't pursue the legal remedies made available to them.
For instance, if I own Killer Widgets and publicly state that individuals can freely copy the utility for personal use, I can still file copyright claims against MS, Dell, or any other company that copies or distributes the utility. If, however, I sue Joe Q Public the principle of estoppel would come into play.
I admit to not having read the RIAA's statement - they usually give me migraines - but estopple would be based on the exact wording of their statement. If they stated they would not pursue any new complaints, estoppel would apply. If they stated they had stopped, estoppel wouldn't necessarily apply. If they said legislative cures weren't needed because they had voluntarily stopped, estoppel still wouldn't necessarily apply, but they should be getting a pretty letter in the mail asking them to come & explain themselves.
AOL started out as a "walled garden" - You purchased access to the garden & were provided with a variety of features through the AOL client.
It's not like AOL members didnt have the same access to the internet as non-AOL internet users. People who used AOL had the regular internet PLUS exclusive AOL material.
Only correct after AOL included NSN in it's client. Prior to that, AOL customers only had access to AOL content. Even then, AOL connections didn't provide full TCP/IP connections until much later - IRC, MUDDs, etc were not available. AOL's pricing structure was based on the "Walled Garden" model providing additional premium content. Unfortunately once they opened the garden, their content was quickly emulated and/or overwhelmed by 3rd party content negating their ability to charge a premium for both their service and their ad-space. With the crash in advertising pricing, they completely lost profitability - hence their freefall stock prices since merging with Time/Warner.
To those who hadn't noticed, the Internet is suffering from throughput problems.
Wrong. There is no throughput problem with "the internet"; there are "last mile" problems with ISPs that have oversold their networks. There are places like the DC loop where 2/3 of the fiber laid is still dark. The Tier 1 Peering points still have a substantial amount of room for growth without substantial investment.
Charter & Comcast both vastly oversell their networks - some areas were suggested to be able to support only 5-10% of the bandwidth sold - I'm not sure that's improved in the last 3 years. But that's not a throughput problem with the internet - that's a greedy company trying to provide the bare minimum service while selling it as premium.
Many years ago I would have argued with you about that... of course that was before I took a red hot poker to my eyes after being surprised by 1 too many goatse pictures.
America has a choice. Bring in foreign labor that sometimes is much better and sometimes much worse than American labor over here legally or outsource their functions and loose all the benefits in the process.
Or the obvious answer - hire people from the US.H1B visas were designed to expedite bringing in people when there was a legitimate shortage of people to fill a position, not to ensure that employers were guaranteed a low cost workforce. Per the last stats I saw, H1B recipients were making 75% of the standard wages for their professions.
I find it preposterous that a bank was unable to find qualified Sales agents within the US. What they couldn't find was people willing to work for 3/4 of the salary of everyone else in the office.
Edubuntu w/ LTS generally can run between 30 and 50 clients - depending on what exactly is running - on decommissioned servers. 2-4 gig on a 2 CPU Xenon MB. Update that to a serious server & you should be well able to push 100 clients as long as your network holds.
We have a company around here that's running 20 PC's w/ roaming profiles - over a cable modem. Same deal, their corporate office keeps saying that everything is good at their end, and it must just the way things are at the remote office so deal with it.
I personally have written an application for my current employer that requires the client to dynamically sort a 100,000 record data set in nothing but client-side Javascript. Significant computer science had to go into creating an optimized, multi-threaded algorithm that would perform well on the lowest common denominator. (IE6>
How exactly did you create a multi-threaded algorithm in a non threaded programming language? Best I can find is a bunch of articles about using timeout() to simulate threads - a process I can't see as improving the performance of a sort procedure.
Paul Allen also invested in RCN, which had just about the opposite business plan - they wanted to cover the densest 15% of the US because it has 80% of the population. Per the plan - if they couldn't hit X number of customers/mile they didn't want the area. One of their problems was they acquired a NJ company that had areas with vastly lower customers/mile than they wanted & they got hit w/ a mandated buildout in those areas & no way to sell off the rural areas.
They trialed Fiber to the Home over 7 years ago, but there wasn't the call then for the bandwidth. They also started the bundled service - Comcast & Charter weren't offering it for several years after RCN started. Unfortunately RCN's real problem was that they were run by a bunch of telco guys (complete with the we don't have to care, we're the phone company attitude) trying to compete in a commodity market. As a tech I went from "Solve the damn problem the first time" pre buyout to "You have to keep your call times under 10 minutes" afterwards. I kid you not, I had a customer with 15 calls in a week for a new modem install that wouldn't connect - her FUCKING MODEM WAS NEVER PROVISIONED. 15 fucking techs and not one of them can be bothered to check her account's provisioning? Oh yes indeed, anyone off the street can do computer/modem tech support - it's no different than telco support where if the automated line test fails you send a tech - right?
I remember one point where they were so proud of how they were going to improve their customer satisfaction rating by delaying mail server maintenance. Yep, a consultant told them that customers rate companies that have small quickly fixed problems higher than companies that have no problems at all - so they deliberately created problems with the mail servers. Yeah team.
Let's not forget the $1M consultancy project that advised them that customers who purchased the bundled services were happier than the customers who only got cable. When asked, the consultancy didn't feel that limiting the population in question to just the people who were able to get the bundled packages (the brand new fiber optic network) was statistically important. So they included the people who were unable to get the bundled services (10 year old 1 way cable modems) in the people who weren't getting bundles. [marqui]NEWS FLASH: People who get state of the art connections are happier than people forced to use a jury rigged cluster fuck of a service[/marqui]
Should I mention the mock QA in training where we had a 'customer' start the reformat for the computer and call us back when it was done- and earned 100% on the QA review? How about the 2 hour call queues that were answered with "Reboot your computer & call back if that doesn't work" when the cable modem isn't connecting to the network - and the techs received full marks on QA because they opened & closed with the correct scripts and offered a "technically valid solution". I suppose it's a technically valid solution - just not to this problem.
Customer support is critical to a commodity service - RCN's management didn't understand that and more importantly, didn't want to understand that. To them the call centers were a necessary evil to be as understaffed as possible with phone monkeys. Sadly, they vastly miscalculated not only how much staffing was needed, but also the ability of phone monkeys to prevent churn.
So Mr Allen had a good idea, but he chose to support a lot of dickweeds in it's execution.
NY, MA, CT, Ohio, and a few other states all have reciprocal teaching licenses and all have the same requirement for a Masters degree within X number of years of teaching - I think Ohio's is 5, MA & NY are 2. I doubt that it's really a rare requirement.
He seemed pretty blown away that while having never written vb.net before I could take concepts from my other experience to figure out that I could loop over the controls in a windows form and clear the text from all 10+ textboxes (out of about 20 elements on the form) in the loop rather than type out TextBox1.clear(), TextBox2.clear() etc. for every one.
I got kicked out of my "Intro to Programming" course for using a double linked list instead of an array - ahh back in the days when Pascal was considered a beginner language and BASIC was a toy.
Teachers pick text books on the grounds that: - the book is affordable by school/students
You are severely misguided. Teachers not only do not pick textbooks, very often they are not even asked to evaluate them prior to purchase. The State School Board lays out a curriculum (often devoid of rhyme or reason - let alone Logic) and local school boards buy textbooks based on what kind of deal they can get from the publishing houses.
which means that a teacher actually has to demonstrate competence and that they had formal education in the subject they are to teach.
My son's school district let the Comp teacher go(He was math anyway) for budget cuts, now I think it's a physics teacher doing the Comp Sci classes - including the graphic arts ones. When I was subbing, the programming course was Visual basic & 95% GUI layout & 5% basic math - literally, they were within 3 weeks of the end of the course & the project was to make a "program" that let you put 2 numbers in separate fields and added them together when you clicked on the "Add" button.
WTF?!!?! 11 weeks to get to the add 2 numbers together stage? Fuck, I was working with sprites and making games within 11 weeks of getting my first computer (A C64 I bought used, so get the fuck off my lawn). If a teacher can't get beyond A+B=C in 11 weeks, something is just plain fucked.
schools are reluctant to hire teachers with Master's degrees or higher.
What a strange place you live in. In MA & NY you are required to have a Masters degree within 2 years of starting teaching. With that 5-6 years of school, you may make as much as 45K after 6 years - in a state with one of the highest costs of living in the nation. All of this sets up a situation where the only people who stay teachers are those with a passion for teaching children. Everyone else moves into corporate training where they make twice as much.
Teachers do need an increase in pay, but they also need an increase in support from parents. How many lawsuits do we have regarding parents suing schools because their kids are failing? I know that my sons school district has had a couple - so many so that my son literally can't fail even when we tell them he should. He hasn't done enough homework in any class to "pass", but he still keeps passing the classes. That rather severely undercuts my attempts as a parent to push the concepts of personal responsibility and consequences.
They're not forcing the rights holders to purchase the materials, they are offering them the right to purchase it as an alternative to destroying it - which is what happens in the US. Although they do have a third interesting option I saw from the article, give it to the Red Cross. I doubt that applies to CDs, but I can certainly see how the RC would benefit from a couple of cargo containers of counterfeit clothes.
and its much greater density than the surrounding medium would tend to dampen its upward rebound.
Interestingly enough, there is no "upward" from the Earth's center of gravity. Mass & gravity are integrated functions not point functions. At the exact center of gravity, all of the Earth's gravimetric forces cancel each other out as you have as much mass back the direction you came as you do in the direction you were going. Ditto w/ respect to any chosen division.
To make a wild guess, I'd speculate perhaps it would be measured in micrometers or nanometers.
I'd suggest you rethink your scales. The total mass involved in a LHC shot is less than you're average grain of sand. You're not dealing with anything on the nanometer scale - your down into sub-angstrom range.
As several people have noted, at the scale of these black holes - atomic nuclei are mostly empty space and collisions between the black hole and normal matter is not the forgone conclusion of a brick against a shop window. Commenting on gravimetric compression is irrelevant for that same fact - while individual atoms may be in compression, the actual reactive mass of the atom doesn't exhibit any change under Earth like gravitational effects. Were this Jupiter or the Sun, you may actually have some point as fusion does alter atomic mass density.
As an additional note, your understanding of gravimetric motion leaves a lot to be desired. An object falling into the center of the earth won't sit there, it will act like a ball on a rubber band - bouncing back & forth through the center point as kinetic energy is transfered back & forth to potential energy.
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Hmm, as the victim of CC fraud, I really don't have a problem with it at all. Especially seeing as the police won't do anything unless an individual incident is over 2K. So, I find it quite easy to sleep.
If the card is loaned or not, according to the last agreement I read, I was responsible for making sure that the signature on the back of the card matched the one on the receipt. If MC or Visa ate the loss on CC fraud, I wouldn't worry about making sure it's a valid sale. As long as it's the business that has to eat all the fraud costs, I say error on the side of caution.
The back of my card explicitly says check ID with no signature. I've had people calmly compare that to my signature and hand it back to me.
As the person behind the counter, I've asked for ID many times - usually because the signature doesn't look right. The only people I've had get bent have been the ones trying to use a stolen/loaned card.
Criminally, OJ was found not guilty. In Civil court he was found liable. Huge difference.
Actual cases I've seen that mirror that decision include one where a teen cut through a fence, broke through a door, cut off a lock, then climbed a silo & fell to his death. The silo owner was cleared of criminal negligence (criminal) but found liable for the death (civil). Once you figure out how to prevent that ruling, get back to me on civil suits having any meaning.
In criminal cases, it's the state against the accused. In civil cases, it's the poor, suffering victims against the evil SOB that did them wrong. Besides, it's only money after all, it's not like it's someone's life at stake. Jurors react very differently in the 2 types of cases and jury selection is a different art in the 2 types of trials.
News reports on TV & radio are subject to libel suits as the report is permanently recorded. The law isn't quite so lithic as to exclude new forms of permanent recording.
Feel free to say it, however be prepared to be sued for slander.
You can say "I still think he's guilty." without fear of legal action. However simply stating that "he is guilty" is a supposed statement of fact - contrary to a previous poster who indicated that all statements are implied to begin with "I believe".
I doubt it. I've used speech to text software before - and after about 10 minutes it's annoying as all hell. There's no inflection and it's enough to either put you to sleep or make you shut the damn thing off just to get some quiet.
The only people who are going to be happy about TtS are the blind/vision impaired who can't read it by themselves.
Back when I was doing programming for the Mac (OS 5-8 in Pascal) they had the resource fork & the data fork. The cool bit was it was perfectly legitimate to build an array of records then save it into the resource fork as binary data. Restart the program & it can reload the array without having to rebuild the array.
As to the point, fopen() pulls in a specific file, however you then need to know if that file is read only, write only, read/write capable etc. With GetReference(Obj) you don't need to worry about that. Obj->write will fail if it's tagged as invalid. As will Obj->read.
To drop to bad psuedo code for populating an array from a stored state:
$text = new Array;
$th = fopen('filename','r');
$text = split(fread($th),'\n');
fclose($th);
Becomes:
$text = new GetReference("Document");
The advantage is that I don't need to know that "Document" is an array Object, because the OS/language already does. It's not amazingly useful for things like a text file, but if you're able to reference a complex data structure without having to interpret it you can pull a lot of stunts - including sharing the reference between threads even if the threads are running on different machines in a cluster.
The biggest point of the project is to force you away from the linear process of using a file and towards conceiving of everything as an Object.
IANAL also - however, estoppel doesn't have to give the impression that it's legal, only that they won't pursue the legal remedies made available to them.
For instance, if I own Killer Widgets and publicly state that individuals can freely copy the utility for personal use, I can still file copyright claims against MS, Dell, or any other company that copies or distributes the utility. If, however, I sue Joe Q Public the principle of estoppel would come into play.
I admit to not having read the RIAA's statement - they usually give me migraines - but estopple would be based on the exact wording of their statement. If they stated they would not pursue any new complaints, estoppel would apply. If they stated they had stopped, estoppel wouldn't necessarily apply. If they said legislative cures weren't needed because they had voluntarily stopped, estoppel still wouldn't necessarily apply, but they should be getting a pretty letter in the mail asking them to come & explain themselves.
AOL started out as a "walled garden" - You purchased access to the garden & were provided with a variety of features through the AOL client.
Only correct after AOL included NSN in it's client. Prior to that, AOL customers only had access to AOL content. Even then, AOL connections didn't provide full TCP/IP connections until much later - IRC, MUDDs, etc were not available. AOL's pricing structure was based on the "Walled Garden" model providing additional premium content. Unfortunately once they opened the garden, their content was quickly emulated and/or overwhelmed by 3rd party content negating their ability to charge a premium for both their service and their ad-space. With the crash in advertising pricing, they completely lost profitability - hence their freefall stock prices since merging with Time/Warner.
Wrong. There is no throughput problem with "the internet"; there are "last mile" problems with ISPs that have oversold their networks. There are places like the DC loop where 2/3 of the fiber laid is still dark. The Tier 1 Peering points still have a substantial amount of room for growth without substantial investment.
Charter & Comcast both vastly oversell their networks - some areas were suggested to be able to support only 5-10% of the bandwidth sold - I'm not sure that's improved in the last 3 years. But that's not a throughput problem with the internet - that's a greedy company trying to provide the bare minimum service while selling it as premium.
Many years ago I would have argued with you about that ... of course that was before I took a red hot poker to my eyes after being surprised by 1 too many goatse pictures.
Or the obvious answer - hire people from the US.H1B visas were designed to expedite bringing in people when there was a legitimate shortage of people to fill a position, not to ensure that employers were guaranteed a low cost workforce. Per the last stats I saw, H1B recipients were making 75% of the standard wages for their professions.
I find it preposterous that a bank was unable to find qualified Sales agents within the US. What they couldn't find was people willing to work for 3/4 of the salary of everyone else in the office.
Edubuntu w/ LTS generally can run between 30 and 50 clients - depending on what exactly is running - on decommissioned servers. 2-4 gig on a 2 CPU Xenon MB. Update that to a serious server & you should be well able to push 100 clients as long as your network holds.
We have a company around here that's running 20 PC's w/ roaming profiles - over a cable modem. Same deal, their corporate office keeps saying that everything is good at their end, and it must just the way things are at the remote office so deal with it.
How exactly did you create a multi-threaded algorithm in a non threaded programming language? Best I can find is a bunch of articles about using timeout() to simulate threads - a process I can't see as improving the performance of a sort procedure.
Paul Allen also invested in RCN, which had just about the opposite business plan - they wanted to cover the densest 15% of the US because it has 80% of the population. Per the plan - if they couldn't hit X number of customers/mile they didn't want the area. One of their problems was they acquired a NJ company that had areas with vastly lower customers/mile than they wanted & they got hit w/ a mandated buildout in those areas & no way to sell off the rural areas.
They trialed Fiber to the Home over 7 years ago, but there wasn't the call then for the bandwidth. They also started the bundled service - Comcast & Charter weren't offering it for several years after RCN started. Unfortunately RCN's real problem was that they were run by a bunch of telco guys (complete with the we don't have to care, we're the phone company attitude) trying to compete in a commodity market. As a tech I went from "Solve the damn problem the first time" pre buyout to "You have to keep your call times under 10 minutes" afterwards. I kid you not, I had a customer with 15 calls in a week for a new modem install that wouldn't connect - her FUCKING MODEM WAS NEVER PROVISIONED. 15 fucking techs and not one of them can be bothered to check her account's provisioning? Oh yes indeed, anyone off the street can do computer/modem tech support - it's no different than telco support where if the automated line test fails you send a tech - right?
I remember one point where they were so proud of how they were going to improve their customer satisfaction rating by delaying mail server maintenance. Yep, a consultant told them that customers rate companies that have small quickly fixed problems higher than companies that have no problems at all - so they deliberately created problems with the mail servers. Yeah team.
Let's not forget the $1M consultancy project that advised them that customers who purchased the bundled services were happier than the customers who only got cable. When asked, the consultancy didn't feel that limiting the population in question to just the people who were able to get the bundled packages (the brand new fiber optic network) was statistically important. So they included the people who were unable to get the bundled services (10 year old 1 way cable modems) in the people who weren't getting bundles. [marqui]NEWS FLASH: People who get state of the art connections are happier than people forced to use a jury rigged cluster fuck of a service[/marqui]
Should I mention the mock QA in training where we had a 'customer' start the reformat for the computer and call us back when it was done- and earned 100% on the QA review? How about the 2 hour call queues that were answered with "Reboot your computer & call back if that doesn't work" when the cable modem isn't connecting to the network - and the techs received full marks on QA because they opened & closed with the correct scripts and offered a "technically valid solution". I suppose it's a technically valid solution - just not to this problem.
Customer support is critical to a commodity service - RCN's management didn't understand that and more importantly, didn't want to understand that. To them the call centers were a necessary evil to be as understaffed as possible with phone monkeys. Sadly, they vastly miscalculated not only how much staffing was needed, but also the ability of phone monkeys to prevent churn.
So Mr Allen had a good idea, but he chose to support a lot of dickweeds in it's execution.
Masters in Education
NY, MA, CT, Ohio, and a few other states all have reciprocal teaching licenses and all have the same requirement for a Masters degree within X number of years of teaching - I think Ohio's is 5, MA & NY are 2. I doubt that it's really a rare requirement.
I got kicked out of my "Intro to Programming" course for using a double linked list instead of an array - ahh back in the days when Pascal was considered a beginner language and BASIC was a toy.
You are severely misguided. Teachers not only do not pick textbooks, very often they are not even asked to evaluate them prior to purchase. The State School Board lays out a curriculum (often devoid of rhyme or reason - let alone Logic) and local school boards buy textbooks based on what kind of deal they can get from the publishing houses.
My son's school district let the Comp teacher go(He was math anyway) for budget cuts, now I think it's a physics teacher doing the Comp Sci classes - including the graphic arts ones. When I was subbing, the programming course was Visual basic & 95% GUI layout & 5% basic math - literally, they were within 3 weeks of the end of the course & the project was to make a "program" that let you put 2 numbers in separate fields and added them together when you clicked on the "Add" button.
WTF?!!?! 11 weeks to get to the add 2 numbers together stage? Fuck, I was working with sprites and making games within 11 weeks of getting my first computer (A C64 I bought used, so get the fuck off my lawn). If a teacher can't get beyond A+B=C in 11 weeks, something is just plain fucked.
What a strange place you live in. In MA & NY you are required to have a Masters degree within 2 years of starting teaching. With that 5-6 years of school, you may make as much as 45K after 6 years - in a state with one of the highest costs of living in the nation. All of this sets up a situation where the only people who stay teachers are those with a passion for teaching children. Everyone else moves into corporate training where they make twice as much.
Teachers do need an increase in pay, but they also need an increase in support from parents. How many lawsuits do we have regarding parents suing schools because their kids are failing? I know that my sons school district has had a couple - so many so that my son literally can't fail even when we tell them he should. He hasn't done enough homework in any class to "pass", but he still keeps passing the classes. That rather severely undercuts my attempts as a parent to push the concepts of personal responsibility and consequences.
They're not forcing the rights holders to purchase the materials, they are offering them the right to purchase it as an alternative to destroying it - which is what happens in the US. Although they do have a third interesting option I saw from the article, give it to the Red Cross. I doubt that applies to CDs, but I can certainly see how the RC would benefit from a couple of cargo containers of counterfeit clothes.
Interestingly enough, there is no "upward" from the Earth's center of gravity. Mass & gravity are integrated functions not point functions. At the exact center of gravity, all of the Earth's gravimetric forces cancel each other out as you have as much mass back the direction you came as you do in the direction you were going. Ditto w/ respect to any chosen division.
I'd suggest you rethink your scales. The total mass involved in a LHC shot is less than you're average grain of sand. You're not dealing with anything on the nanometer scale - your down into sub-angstrom range.
As several people have noted, at the scale of these black holes - atomic nuclei are mostly empty space and collisions between the black hole and normal matter is not the forgone conclusion of a brick against a shop window. Commenting on gravimetric compression is irrelevant for that same fact - while individual atoms may be in compression, the actual reactive mass of the atom doesn't exhibit any change under Earth like gravitational effects. Were this Jupiter or the Sun, you may actually have some point as fusion does alter atomic mass density.
As an additional note, your understanding of gravimetric motion leaves a lot to be desired. An object falling into the center of the earth won't sit there, it will act like a ball on a rubber band - bouncing back & forth through the center point as kinetic energy is transfered back & forth to potential energy.