This seems like a good point to me.
Brit Hume said that one of his production assistants did the same test with the same results.
The Round Table is going to discuss that right after THIS break.
Poor Mara (evil grin).
Ping! Mechanical typewriters don't auto-center address lines at the page header.
Nice Job!
In all fairness, back in the stone ages we used to center on mechanical typewriters all the time. It's just that the typist did the math rather than having the computer figure it out. :-)
It must really suck today to be a Democrat.
I believe that if they ever can trace this thing back to its roots, we may well find that it all just adds more fuel to the fire regarding the theory that the Clinton's and their operatives are undermining Kerry so Hillary can be in position for 2008.
Ether way...this type of thing is putting forks into Kerry's campaign because he is done.
Just my two cents and opinion.
Another question is why the "th" in the top isn't superscripted but at the #2 point, it is.
Not physically impossible, just very, very, very, very, very, very, very improbable.
Good catch.
And in other news, DNC commissar Terry McAwful said:
"These fake documents were White House plants.
They hoodwinked the DNC and CBS, taking
advantage of our lust for power and general
gross incompetence on technical stuff.
It's all just so unfair."
I never thought of that, and obviously neither did someone else!
A very good typist could duplicate the centering trick. However, no one would wish to take the time to duplicate the "kerning" which is apparant in the document.
I ran the same test but missed the point that the text was perfectly centered. What are the chances that some guy with an IBM or Royal typewriter in 1972 would line the words up exactly the same way that Bill Gates would in 2004. Not a chance. Not one in a billion.
CNN is, as of this very moment, preaching how these new documents are proof that Bush not only received preferential treatment, but also that he just didn't fulfill his duty.
FoxNews is at the same time questioning the validity of said "documents" using the exact MS Word argument.
Excellent!
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Was the document created in MS Word?
Nobody knows.
But if it matches the word-wrap of MS Word exactly, odds are it was done on a machine that used the same paragraphing algorithm as MS does.
Which wouldn't be unusual - nearly all typesetting systems today, and the best typesetting systems for quite some time, have used a variant of Knuth's algorithm.
Which was first published in 1981.
Adobe has used Knuth's algorithm for 15 years, now. Microsoft for I don't know how long.
So it's not at all suprising that a word-processing or type-setting system would layout the text similarly to what MS Word would - if that word-processing or type-setting system had been developed after 1981.
It's close to an impossibility that a word-processing or type-setting system that predated 1981 would do so. Knuth's was the first to consider the layout of the entire paragraph when determining line-breaks. Which is what the typesetters had always done.
But no automated system prior to 1981 did so. Particularly no typewriter, no matter how sophisticated.
And no typist would manually lay out a paragraph while they were typing and break where Knuth's algorithm would break, except by random chance.
Democratic Party, CBS News and Dan Rather CAUGHT RED-HANDED perpetrating a fraud!!
This could have the effect of casting a "chill" over the rats' right to free speech.
Life is sweet when you win...