Stardate 20010725.1557 (On Screen): Has it become impossible to hold a G8 conference without trouble? Perhaps for the moment, but "this too shall pass". Protests against globalization are just as pointless in the long run as the Luddite protests were. In the meantime, there are a couple of possibilities. Suppose that instead of meeting at a hotel in some city they were to charter a cruise liner and fly in by helicoptor, meeting in the Atlantic off the coast of Europe somewhere. The remaining accomodations on that liner would be reserved for aides and the press. If the demonstrators can walk on water they'd be quite welcome to march around the ship. But an even more interesting possibility is teleconferencing. Why do they need to meet physically at all, anymore?
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