:06:00
but it is critical of the WTO.
:06:04
Most people, though,
who find gatt.org
:06:06
by searching
for the World Trade Organization...
:06:09
will go without reading it
and will send us e-mail directly.
:06:13
So a lot of people ask us
weird questions about tariffs and trade,
:06:16
and we try to answer
as accurately as we can.
:06:19
And occasionally invitations come in
:06:21
from official
or quasi-official organizations
:06:24
asking for opinions
or asking us to attend a conference.
:06:28
And so, when they ask, they really think
they're talking to the WTO,
:06:31
and we respond by giving them
what we think they want...
:06:35
which is the opinions of the WTO...
:06:38
as accurately
as we can represent them.
:06:40
You know what I'm thinking,
actually, looking at this...
:06:43
is that maybe this is a zipper.
:06:45
Yeah! Yeah, yeah.
:06:47
Then he just unzips it
and pulls the thing at the same time.
:06:49
- That could be really good.
- Because...
:06:51
to have it burst out of the Velcro,
it might not be strong enough to burst out,
:06:55
and then he'd have to pull it.
:06:57
Part of the thing
that gives us the courage
:06:59
to go to Tampere...
with this really absurd suit
:07:05
is that we already went
to Salzburg, Austria, to represent
:07:08
the World Trade Organization
at a conference on tariffs and trade.
:07:12
There, our representative-the same guy
who is Hank Hardy Unruh here...
:07:17
was Dr, andreas Bichlbauer there.
:07:20
And he gave a lecture that focused
:07:21
on basically doing away with
all customs in the name of free trade,
:07:26
like getting rid of the siesta
in Spain and Italy
:07:30
so that business hours
could be the same.
:07:32
In Italy, on the other hand,
you have a totally different situation,
:07:35
in which sleep is...done during
the day as much as at night almost.
:07:41
And allowing people to sell their votes
over the Internet to the highest bidder
:07:46
so that the barriers to free trade
and things like votes were out of the way.
:07:50
One possible solution is being tested
in the field of American politics
:07:54
to streamline the grotesquely
inefficient system of elections.
:07:59
Vote-auction.com, in turn,
employs only four people