HACK RATING SYSTEM
Gwill:
Quote from: tunaisafish on 2006 January 17, 05:29:45
I don't think we have any kind of public alert system here in the UK.
I think we do in Norway, but it's called something like Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, no fancy colours or anything.
tunaisafish:
Hairfish: lol :)
You could be right. A quick google found that the costume got its' name from the atoll.
Gwill:
I found out why we don't have one here in the UK, our Govt. doesn't want to scare us. The conclusion of
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmdfence/518-ii/2013002.htm
The fact that Blair was soon up for re-election and campaigning that the UK was so much safer has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I don't recall buses and trains blowing up (without warning) in my neighbourhood in the decades preceding.
vilia:
Quote from: Kingdom on 2006 January 15, 22:58:33
Don't green and blue need to be swapped to correspond with the color spectrum, or am I just crazy?
I guess because green is a more neutral color...
Obviously none of the people who designed this system had ever heard of the phrase "blue and green should never be seen without something in between" or a variation "blue and green should never be seen except in the washing machine". If they had, they would have realised that by putting blue and green together they were creating a massive faux pas. I can't really get worried or worked up over a scale that ignores basic fashion lol.
Seriously though, maybe blue is the next stage up because the sea can become turbulent?
Syera:
Blue and green can look perfectly fine together, next to each other, providing they're done right. Also, I've seen more color-wheel compliant color disasters than I can shake a stick at. Brick red and bright blue just don't go together.
To be fair, the only way they could create a totally non-offensive color alert system would be to do the entire thing in shades of gray, ranging from black to white. You know, like "Medium Gray Alert!" and "Dark Gray Alert!" Or "Black Alert" in those really dire situations, like when your brain's been smattered against your carpet courtesy of the latest A-bomb to stop by your house.
simmiecal:
Quote from: Syera on 2006 January 17, 23:29:55
Blue and green can look perfectly fine together, next to each other, providing they're done right. Also, I've seen more color-wheel compliant color disasters than I can shake a stick at. Brick red and bright blue just don't go together.
To be fair, the only way they could create a totally non-offensive color alert system would be to do the entire thing in shades of gray, ranging from black to white. You know, like "Medium Gray Alert!" and "Dark Gray Alert!" Or "Black Alert" in those really dire situations, like when your brain's been smattered against your carpet courtesy of the latest A-bomb to stop by your house.
I don't think it's necessarily an issue of offensive colors but that if this system is supposed to be effective, one should be able to tell the alert status and for many people with colorblindness, they wouldn't be able to distinguish between the green and the blue.
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