Very good point. From what I remember reading somewhere, the earth was in a moderate ice age 10,000 years ago. My question is... what happened to all of the SUV's that were driven back then to start the warming?

Well.. At least it is 1% in the RIGHT direction. Remember the old adage, 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.'

I have owned Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft II Expansion Pack, Warcraft II Battle.net Edition, Warcraft III Collectors Edition, Starcraft and Starcraft Broodwar. As long as there is no pure LAN gaming in Starcraft II, there will be NO PURCHASING of Starcraft II for me. How many of you have had software that has to be certified through a company's server before it will work or have its full abilities? I have had several that were like that and now the company's are out of business. Thus, no software to use anymore. DVD xcopy or Musicmatch? Both had to be certified through the company's servers. I had a license for unlimited upgrades of Musicmatch and they sold out to Yahoo. The problem is Yahoo shut down Musicmatch and no, I cant even install and use the full options of the installs that I already have. Never mind the fact that it will not run on a 64bit Windows at all because Yahoo canned the program before the implementation of a 64bit program. Who is to say that Blizzard will not suffer the same fate of Musicmatch. Purchase by larger company, not enough proffit from product, shut down of product. Maybe I'll buy it after a crack comes out that installs pure LAN play. Hey, Blizzard its your fault.

That's ok for moders. What about those of us who will not buy StarCraft II without LAN party capability? I think I irritated a Blizzard employee one time when we met. I told him, I hope Blizzard does not screw up StarCraft II like they did WarCraft III. I hated the look of WCIII and did not even finish the human single player campaign. Thats after paying $70 for the special box set of WarCraft III. If they do not have LAN capability in StarCraft II, I will not even waste my money on purchasing the game.