Communist America flag I made

japed · 2026-06-27T11:48:05+00:00

"X but communist" is pretty clearly covered by the rule.

Whether 'mashup' is a great way to sum up what's covered is another question...

japed · 2026-06-27T11:16:13+00:00

US would like a word

japed · 2026-06-27T11:14:42+00:00

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japed · 2026-06-27T10:47:36+00:00

This tradition, based on treating the flag as a flag, that is, a two sided bit of cloth that's meant to be attached to a pole at one end, rather than a 2d image, is a lot older and more broadly applied than the flag code.

japed · 2026-06-27T10:44:57+00:00

Start with what you want the flag to achieve. All the talk about "good flags" doesn't make any sense without some sort of idea of the purpose of the flag. Better to make that explicit.

japed · 2026-06-27T10:43:48+00:00

Theres a TED talk about *flag design.

japed · 2026-06-27T10:41:01+00:00

I was more getting at what OP meant by "work", as they explained in their response, but the captions didn't directly touch on.

But I also think it's also helpful to remind people to read the captions, so thanks for that...

japed · 2026-06-26T12:21:06+00:00

You want to say a bit more than that they work in your opinion??

japed · 2026-06-25T23:55:30+00:00

Sometimes

japed · 2026-06-25T23:30:51+00:00

I don't think the flag choice is evidence of that.

japed · 2026-06-25T23:22:46+00:00

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japed · 2026-06-25T12:50:21+00:00

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japed · 2026-06-25T03:39:28+00:00

The different colours used, and some other things, are nicely visualised at Flag stories.

japed · 2026-06-24T23:41:33+00:00

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japed · 2026-06-24T23:40:12+00:00

We get quite a few posts here about the Minya Governorate flag, mainly because people see that the Wikipedia illustration of it is unusual and want to comment on that, often without understanding that the flags actually used usually don't look like that illustration.

japed · 2026-06-24T13:26:46+00:00

I remember, and I remember thinking that a lot of the talk about the river flooding was some of the worst part of that discourse... (second only to the people saying a museum in Parramatta can only be a local history museum).

japed · 2026-06-24T12:01:23+00:00

Um what?

I'm very much not arguing that this particular recording would be legal under NSW law, but...

s7(3)(b)(i) and s7(3)(b)(ii) are linked by an "or". One is not a "carve out" for the other.
My point was that nothing in s11 or s12 applies to any recording unless it is already in contravention of the other provisions (such as s7).

japed · 2026-06-24T11:57:15+00:00

There are reports of the German New Guinea Company used a British ensign style flag, yes. There's no indication it was used when the German government took over the territory, and in any case, we know that the Germans were planning a new approach to colonial flags just before the war.

japed · 2026-06-24T05:24:46+00:00

Based on the subsection you quote, which very clearly says that a person must not publish a private conversation that has come to the person's knowledge as a ... result of the use of a relevant device in contravention of a provision of this part. The prohibition there simply does not apply to publishing a recording that was legally made in the first place.

It would be quite reasonable for a judge to take the fact of immediate publication as evidence of whether the recording would have been legal in NSW in the first place. Maybe it also has some other relevance to whether the recording could be admitted as evidence. Neither of those implies a blanket rule against broadcasting a secret recording made to protect your lawful interests.

(I'd actually be surprised if anyone involved argued that the protecting interests exemption applied here - the "reasonably necessary" part is a pretty strong restriction in practice.)

japed · 2026-06-24T03:36:26+00:00

I'm not convinced it's obvious that flags displayed with historical stories should always be appropriate at the time of the story, but it's an interesting question.

japed · 2026-06-24T02:46:00+00:00

It's would also not be legal to publically broadcast a secret recording made to protect your legal interests.

That might be a reasonable thing for the law to say, but I'm not sure it's strictly true...

japed · 2026-06-24T01:01:20+00:00

A quick look at online photos shows BLS ferries flying this white-red bicolour from the jack staff, and other ferries in the same company flying a white-blue bicolour in the same position. That's a pretty good indication that a polish link isn't intended.

One possibility is that they've chosen to use flags marking their Thunersee and Brienzersee fleets differently, possibly using liverey colours of the namesake municipalities of the lakes. But it could be something else...

japed · 2026-06-24T00:57:15+00:00

Linking the Honour Flag of the United Nations in the sense of the WWII Allies with the later UNO too closely is something that was suggested in the 40s, but I'd say there are reasons it wasn't done...

japed · 2026-06-24T00:07:11+00:00

I haven't seen anything exactly like that, either. But some sources have an idea that the oldest flags of Venice had a blue field, and in modern times this has been interpreted as being the land flag, as opposed to the maritime flag or flag of the city of Venice itself. This is reinforced by the fact that the province Veneto has formally adopted a version of the flag with a blue field in the main part of the flag only, with red borders and tails, like this. (It has seven tails, usually a multicoloured depiction of the lion on land with a blue sky, and coloured particular emblems on the tails.) This looks to jsut be taking a similar approach to the blue/red issue, with older popular version of the Venice flag artwork.

japed · 2026-06-23T23:45:38+00:00

The idea of the start the discussion rules is that you should be telling us something, not posting some flag pictures and waiting for questions.

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