[LEAPSECS] Inside GNSS published an update of my CGSIC talk
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Mon Mar 20 18:05:40 EDT 2023
Warner Losh wrote in
<CANCZdfo2nhUp=-os=ejCgR60pUgR2QOn75PT=VMiWWWxjr-2pw at mail.gmail.com>:
|On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:46 PM Richard B Langley <lang at unb.ca> wrote:
|> "I'd also note that if GLASNOS can't be fixed by 2035 ..."
|>
|> Interesting slip of the tongue.
|>
|> Glasnos[t] was taken to mean increased openness and transparency in
|> government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union (USSR). \
|> Glasnost
|> reflected a commitment of the Gorbachev administration to allowing Soviet
|> citizens to discuss publicly the problems of their system and potential
|> solutions.
|>
|> Of course, GLONASS was meant. But we are reminded that in today's Russia,
|> openness and transparency, not to mention freedom of speech, is a \
|> thing of
|> the past.
|>
|
|ah, yes. I lisned to too many Gorby speeches back in the day, eh?
|
|Thanks for the amusing correction...
Yes, they were fooled and plundered.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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