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A script to check the USA's Homeland Security threat level
Authored by: johnq on Jan 17, '04 07:18:45PM

My main issue with the threat levels is the naming.

Low - No problem with Low

Guarded - This basically meaningless. It implies Low is "unguarded", which we will never be again, presumably. It doesn't answer the implicit question of ""what is the current threat level""? "Low", "High" and "Severe" answer this question.
"Elevated" and "Guarded" do not, in different ways.

Elevated - Big problem with this one. Since it is also a verb, we get into ridiculous situations where we have to say "The Homeland Security Threat level was elevated from Elevated to High today" or "The Homeland Security Threat level was lowered from Elevated to Guarded today". Confusion occurs whether the level was Elevated or elevated (raised) from some other level.

High - High and Severe are not different enough, nearly interchangeable. "My daughter had a sever fever last night" or "My daughter had a high fever last night"...

Severe - see above.

Basically I would like less ambiguous labels.



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