They wouldn't be able to do it without wiping out the entire world (that isn't going to happen).
Did I mention the U.S. can destroy them hundreds of times over?
Which I specifically did with Wine (I used their repositories). I do know what I am doing, I've been doing it for a while. As for Karmic, it isn't unstable on my end, however many proprietary drivers may not work yet since the 2.6.30 kernel just came out of testing. "Bleeding edge" isn't a bad...
I installed the drivers manually because usually AMD's site has more up to date driver versions. I'll upgrade to 9.04 and see how it goes from there, Karmic Koala's kernel (2.6.30) isn't yet supported by fglrx.
Unfortunatly I just get a black screen when I meet the menu. I've tried windowing the game, lowering the DirectX version and changing resolutions and nothing works. This is while trying to run HL2/EP1/2. I'll see how things work with my other computer which has a nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+. Oh by...