Re: If you were to design a language, how many vowels and consonants would you use?

saying if we have a slew of laws against
> crime and throw many people in prison, crime will soon stop.
>
> Well, it sounded reasonable when the managers said it about warning people
> email was being monitored and firing people.
>
> Even I was amazed at how wrong they were.
>
> That it didn't slack off (for more than two weeks) after warning people
> again and again.


Remember the Bob Brain report? Here's another slice:

> Note that this email occurred days after Brain's area had been
> notified that their traffic was being watched.
>
> date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:55:42 -0400
> From: Bob Brain nnn-nnnn <bob@poison>
> To: <Harvard female>
>
> We were notified today in a firm-wide memo that our email going in/out
> the Internet is now being monitored. Big brother has arrived.
>
>
> Sender: bob@tridenthead2
> date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:04:48 -0400
> From: bob@tridenthead2 (Bob Brain nnn-nnnn)
> Recipient: Sam@XXX.com
>
> I've been thinking about it for a while, and I'm pretty sure I'm going
> to resign at Salomon shortly.
>
> A couple more big clients for our WWW site and even though it's less
> than half of my current income, I'll finally be able to devote myself
> full-time to the business. Yeah!
>
> F*** that would be awesome (pardon my language).


Remember the person the FBI was investigating for theft of Risk Management
source code? His manager told him and all the other employees in their
group that their email was being monitored. The manager told both me, Salomon
Legal, and the U.S. Attorney and the two FBI agents this.

Go figure.

I call this Inte