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Comment Re:What about my rights? (Score 1) 172

Read the rules closely and you can figure out it bans opening a BitCoin bank in NY. Basically, if you take deposits it needs to 100% back by BitCoins, so no fractional reserve banking.

You can't use bitcoin for fractional reserve banking; the system itself doesn't support it. Legislation banning fractional reserve banking in BTC is like legislation banning the sun from rising in the west.

Comment Re:Over 190 comments in this thread so far (Score 1) 509

Teachers are under attack....

There's a lot of truth to what you say; your observations are among the reasons why I describe the situation as "sad'.

However, it is possible to work in teaching and not be subjected to the hardships you point out above. All the teachers I know personally love their jobs. Of course, they are fortunate enough to be employed by institutions that are insulated from a lot of the problems you mention.

Comment Re:Civil Rights Activists (Score 2) 223

Why yes, I do watch Fox News. why do you ask?

Because citizens who do not watch Fox News are threats to national security, and are therefore placed under surveillance. No need for you to be concer...oh wait, you're posting on a known subversive site that is part of our selector set. I guess we'll be watching you after all.

Submission + - Straight-up operant conditioning (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader writes: When the University of Victoria in Canada opened a new campus bike centre in the parkade located under the University Centre last November, motion-activated doors were installed to discourage swallows from nesting in the new facility. But when the swallows returned to their familiar nest sites a few weeks ago, they were undeterred by this peculiar impediment: they quickly learned how to open the doors by flying in front of the infrared motion detector, as you see in this video:

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