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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 01:42:31 +0100, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <op.yyh8xijmjs98qf@red.lan>, James Wilkinson Sword
> <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >>> Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Purple surely?  And where is Orange?
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > ...or Cyan?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Nah, that's light blue.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > cyan is not light blue. it's a mix of green+blue,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> No, that would be turquoise.  Cyan ink from a printer is light blue.
>> >> >
>> >> > nope. cyan from a printer is a mix of green+blue, or the complement of
>> >> > red, as i said.
>> >>
>> >> Technically perhaps, but that's not what it looks like.  To the human eye
>> >> it's light blue.  My printer operates from big ink tanks.  I just dropped a
>> >> bit of cyan ink onto some paper.  It's light blue.
>> >
>> > it's cyan. it's not light blue. that's why it's called cyan ink and not
>> > light blue ink.
>>
>> For technical scientific printer production.  Cyan.
>>
>> For everyday see what it looks like and describe it.  Light blue.
>
> you're wrong. simple as that.

It's just a label.

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-13 18:59 +0100

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