Please. Ever heard of conference calling and fax machines?
Maybe this will wake the Brits up as to the Muzzies they welcome so much.
Thank you for asking.
I have, in fact.
As I recall, they have on not a few occasions been resorted to by lazy companies who lost the huge deal(s) because their competitors went overseas in person and gave the presentation.
Ever heard of pride or dignity? Foreigners have it too.
Look at the utter venom most people here have towards muslim countries shredding bibles at the customs desk, demanding women wear veils, jailing people for having a beer in private. Do we just conference call and fax over there with no hard feelings?
The Saudis are sitting on trillions of dollars in liquid gold. They can afford to thumb their nose at anyone they like. We can't.
And even if we could, I like to think that lacking the means isn't the only thing that seperates us - most of us - from them.
Are you kidding? You don't close multi-billion deals on a conference call or a fax. In the corporate world there is a thing referred to as a TTM or table top meeting where confidential documents and financial instruments are exchanged...buyer and seller meet face to face.
This is just more of "Bush's Homeland INsecurity" cow flop.
Yeah, that's it! For a few billion we can develop a program to fax pictures of Arizona scenery to the European tourist hordes who can now lo longer make it in person.