[48432] in Cypherpunks
Re: Downsizing the NSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Mon Jan 29 02:24:25 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:22:23 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960128050809.19570B-100000@larry.infi.net> from "Alan Horowitz" at Jan 28, 96 05:10:02 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Tim May writes:
> AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
> just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
> congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?
Alan Horowitz writes:
# You didn't read about it in the _Baltimore Sun_, so obviously it must not
# have happened?
Where do you propose that these 20,000 mathematicians went? Did they take
advantage of the unmet demand for math professors ? <snort>
Please share your evidence for this dramatic employment shift with the rest
of us.
Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
