The tax collection and remittance would all be handled by the exchanges.
Audits are trivial, since every single trade is already logged.

0.03% is a rounding error to most traders.
The only people who will be thwarted by the tax are HFTs who make their money on fractions of a cent.

0.03% is an extremely small cost to pay for stamping out zero-sum HFT activity.
If we're lucky, they'll roll that money back into the SEC for better enforcement of the stock and commodities markets.

Those are called "mining rights" and they're for sale too.
It's just that most of us don't bother buying them, because there's nothing worth owning under our land.

This article doesn't talk about it, but the volcanic ash (AOL Keyword: pozzolan ash) can be found in deposits all over the world.

It's already mined commercially and it will be trivial to increase that mining capacity in locations that are far away from anywhere environmentally sensitive.

The first trick is spreading the noise out over a larger range of frequencies.
You can accomplish this by changing the rotor blade spacing to reduce harmonics.
So instead of equally spaced rotors, the distance between them is unequal, which mitigates that whap-whap-whap sound.

The second big method involves actively "flapping" the rotors.
This lets you change the plane of the rotor just enough to miss the vortex from the previous rotation.
By always traveling through smooth air, you can minimize uneven pressure waves which create noise.

The rest of the tweaks are aerodynamic adjustments to the blade tips/materials/shape.
And last but not least, throttle back and reduce the rotor speed.

"and Congress is made aware of these activities." does not actually mean all of Congress was made aware of the activities.

"Congress is made aware" usually means "we told leadership and some key people on an intelligence (sub)committee."

The first 4 GHz are easy.

Here's Ivy Bridge chips pushing ~220 Watts to reach 4.7 GHz
http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1924/power-consumption.jpg

/AMD's FX-9xxx series uses a 32nm process.
/Intel's Ivy Bridge and Haswell use a 22nm process.

TFA doesn't really give you the full picture, so I can understand why you'd think this is a "corporate interest"
The Chinese government created a company that they own and fund, for the purposes of building, owning, and operating this canal for 100 years.

China isn't not building the canal to operate it for-profit.
The bulk of the benefit to China will be reflected in lower shipping costs.

/Most of the largest companies in China are partially or wholly government owned.

If only there was a site dedicated to showing you how to run OSX on wintel hardware: http://www.hackintosh.com/
Or maybe well known websites that had an up-to-date guide: http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh-o-5841604

Did you really not know?

I can see Russia from the top of this wave!

Isn't that what laptops do? Are they not computers for the purposes of this conversation?
The only reason no one else does a "unified thermal core" for desktops is because industry standard motherboard layouts are not compatible with such a design.

From tabbing back and forth through the interactive swf, it looks like the layout is a triangle, with the 'mainboard' and two graphics cards making up the legs.
The "unified thermal core" is a hollow triangular heat sink running down the center, with a copper mating point on each face.
It also looks like the flash drive is mounted directly behind the core of one graphics card, which should do wonders for its lifespan.
There's also a 'daughter' board in the base of the case, with some undocumented chips on it.

The CPU can be replaced without complete disassembly.
You will have to remove the 'mainboard' though.

Technically impressive. Completely non-standard.
It's interesting that Apple believes 1 CPU and 2 GPUs is the future of professional computing.

There are. Concrete is one example.
The ancients also did incredibly complex things with ceramics and glazes that we haven't been able to recreate yet.

The reason for their "amazing ancient technologies" is that was all they had.
Improvements in materials science were mostly the result of accidents or brute force experimentation.
Now imagine if the combined intellectual power of the modern world was focused on perfecting only one or two technologies over the course of centuries.

The NRC hasn't denied an operating permit in 30 years.

The last permit denied was only under heavy pressure.
When the facts came out, everything ended up in court with General Electric & Contractors being charged under RICO statues.

It wasn't a traditional court case, in that it was a summary jury trial.
GE & others ended up settling because the Judge agreed that their actions were fraudulent and that they engaged in racketeering.

The NRC is a very captured regulatory body.

You cannot assume that DNA is unique.
You cannot assume that fingerprints are unique.
You cannot assume that a person has fingerprints.
You cannot assume that a person has fingers.
You cannot assume that DNA will not be trivially replicated/faked
You cannot assume that fingerprints will not be trivially replicated/faked
You cannot assume that fingerprints will not change
You cannot assume that DNA will not change

You cannot even assume that a person has only 1 type of DNA in their body.

It's easy to make generalizations
it's hard to account for all the edge cases.

There's an enormous difference between "no, we cannot tell you how many Americans" and "yes, but IP addresses aren't 100% accurate"

The lie is using weasel words to avoid admitting to Congress "yes" they had the capability to do what was being asked about.

So it's not a lose/lose.
Further, the benefits of forcing false confessions can accrue much higher up, as the State itself prefers to be seen as able to protect its citizens.