[Las Vegas Ron]

The HI one was scanned just recently, supposedly. I scanned mine at the default resolution, 360 dpi so it's not a high rez scan.

The point is, mine is real. The HI one is not.

Note there are no halo's on mine and the security markings never disappear like the HI one.

[ctdonath2]

360dpi is a high-res scan relative to document processing some 25 years ago. Yes, I’m talking about BHO’s BC having been scanned in the 1980s - when I remember studying document compression via sectional decomposition, variable bit depths, and other techniques for cramming thousands/millions of documents into seemingly impossibly small storage spaces, a time when a PC with 10MB storage seemed vast.

Take a screenshot of the window you are looking at this very text in (characters are about a dozen pixels high). Save it as a .JPG at very high compression (say, 15/100). View the result; you’ll see halos.

Don’t know why you think the HI one was scanned recently. Pretty obvious it wasn’t.

[DiogenesLamp]

The HI one was scanned just recently, supposedly. I scanned mine at the default resolution, 360 dpi so it's not a high rez scan.

The point is, mine is real. The HI one is not.

Note there are no halo's on mine and the security markings never disappear like the HI one.

Your experimental proof of the falsity of ctdonath2's theory reminds me of what Benjamin Franklin said:

It is a terrible thing to see a beautiful theory beaten to death by a gang of ruthless facts.