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Why would the price be any different for a Mac? I have no idea how Macs work, I've never owned anything other than a PC. Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

There are two fundamental misconceptions in the video you posted. The first is that currency functions like a commodity. A commodity is an object that possesses its own intrinsic utility value, like rice, silver, or gold. Commodities have often been used as currencies throughout history, but currencies are not inherently commodities in themselves. Functionally speaking, currencies are more or less like shares in a corporation. They represent a portion of the total market value of the issuing entity. A $100 USD bill is effectively a stock certificate entitling it's holder to whatever that proportion of the total amount of US currency in circulation can command on the open market. The value of currency increases and decreases for the same reasons that the value of stocks increase and decrease. If the underlying value of the business increases, then the price rises, and vice-versa. The same with currencies and national economies. Similarly, if too many stocks are issued, then the value of the individual stocks become diluted. Likewise, if the treasury issues too much money, the result is monetary inflation (vs. price inflation). Central bank monetary policy is all about managing money supply and interest rates (which are akin to stock dividends) in order to keep the value of the currency stable. The second misconception is that the federal budget is like a household budget. That is entirely untrue. A government treasury is effectively a state owned corporation, and it raises funds like any other business in order to fuel economic growth and fund operations. Of course, if a government borrows too agressively and recklessly, or if the treasury claims too great or too little a share of economic activity with its tax policies, then business will suffer. However, government debt doesn't amount to a stack of household bills. It shows up as liabilities on the balance sheet. As long as debt doesn't grow too large relative to assets, and as long as servicing that debt doesn't become excessively expensive, then a certain amount of debt is not just normal, but healthy in a growing economy, just as it is for a growing company. Debt, in and of itself, is not a sign of fiscal irresponsibility or poor economic performance. These are basic economic concepts, and in my estimation, anyone who doesn't understand them is participating in cryptocurrency schemes purely on the basis of blind faith. Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

Erm, the underlying asset supporting every legal currency is the sum total of the economic activity that replenishes the government treasury. Taxes and treasury securities are real. Currency is not simply a legal fiction. Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

Soo, the pyramid scheme known as cryptocurrency (CC) is quite popular right now. The system functions by using computers to generate solutions to a complex cryptographic algorithm. Each of these solutions is known as a "coin". These coins are unique to their owners. Proponents of cryptocurrency use these coins as a medium of exchange, even though they have no intrinsic value, nor any kind of legal validity, and they are not backed by any underlying assets. The value of these coins can only be described in terms of the legal currencies that are used to purchase and redeem them. The investment activity surrounding this system is speculative in the purest sense, but since the price of CC often experiences wild upsurges, and since no one has seemed to notice that the only sustainable money to be made in this venture is from owning a government issued license that allows you to charge fees for converting legal currency to CC and back, people are willing to gamble on generating their own coins, otherwise known as "mining". It turns out that GPUs are ideal for performing the kinds of calculations required by mining. The system is designed so that as these coins are generated, it becomes exponentially harder to generate new coins, thus imposing a physical upper limit on the number of coins in circulation. Therefore, mining new coins requires an ever-increasing amount of computational power. So miners run around buying GPUs by the dozen to support their gambling habit, which drives up the price for poor schmucks like you and me who just want to enjoy their PC games at a decent resolution. They are also consuming massive amounts of electricity and generating a ton of heat while they do it. Fun. Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

Is it mono or stereo? The game seems to have trouble with stereo sounds for some reason. Try mono and see if that helps.

Sierra Hotel! :thumbup:

Sorry, but "fast" and "AGP" are antonyms. The clock speeds on AGP cards are dead slow. You'd be better off springing for a new mobo along with a PCI video card.

Absolutely. Another problem is focus on the primary target once the attack is initiated. One problem I've had is AI aircraft detecting radar from distant AA sites while extending after the initial attack and launching missiles at the remote site, leaving nothing to attack the primary target with. Craziness. :disgust:

All I did was enable "force alternate frame rendering 1" in the nVidia control panel and that took care of the problem for me. (7600GTx2)