I will have to look into installing that later. I can obviously download it via the Steam "Gold" package, but being in hippy dial-up hell, I would much rather install it from the CE. I will have to find out if the CE disk lets you install specific components (games) or if it is an all-or-nothing deal.

Valve sure did put out a crappy CE

My video card is an ATi 8500 SE. Do you know what the SE stands for? After having dealt with it for a while, I've come to believe it means 'Sucky Edition'.

2) Rez sickness at spirit healer at higher levels (and I think this is true in general, though not sure) is way too long... 30 minutes is just stupid for a game trying to aim at less hardcore players

but after than comment

Also, yes, I am aware that the US pollutes 24% as to China's 22%. However, China is an up and coming industrial state. Ten years from now, China WILL be the world's biggest poluter.
Also, explain to me how it is deemed fair that China was exempt from the Protocol, but the US would've had to adhere to it?

Oh no, not the fucking Kyoto Protocol again.

THAT, in a nutshell, is the Kyoto Protocol, and how countries are 'adhering' to it. So please, get off your fucking moral high horse, and stop flaunting it as your proof how the US is so EEEVVIILLLL, because it's all just fucking bullshit.

It just feels that we shouldn't be the ones paying for everyone else's fresh air.

However, the treaty is fundamentally flawed, because instead of setting the CO2 quota by GDP (in other words, the more money you make the more pollution you are allowed to produce) it was set arbitrarily, country-by-country, with economic development considered in a way that was heavy industry friendly. And the 3rd world nations ganged up on the U.S. to allow India, China, and Brazil to have much higher allowed levels than the U.S. or Europe (proportionately). That is what many people (myself included) really don't like, because I think that a global treaty that included a FAIR pollution tax (which is what Kyoto boils down to) would be OK.

The US Natural Resources Defense Council, stated in June 2001 that: "By switching from coal to cleaner energy sources, initiating energy efficiency programs, and restructuring its economy, China has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions 17 percent since 1997".

the treaty HAD NO MEANS OF SLOWING THE GROWTH OF CO2 OUTPUT, it only taxed countries for making too much.

What we need is new energy sources that don't involve freeing up stored reactive gases that have been kept out of the atmosphere for millions of years. Solar, Fusion, Wind, Tide, etc. And whoever invents something like that that works is going to make money regardless of international law.