Posted on 09/10/2004 3:18:38 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 09/10/2004 4:53:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
You'll often see me on this site at 3am in the morning when I wake.
Mort was as mad as I've ever seen him
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I think Mort is going to cast his secret ballot for W!
BUT...to the point...NOBODY on earth could have used whatever version of Times New Roman in the 70's unless they had a damned Linotype printer used exclusively in the printing industry!
Do I have that right?
The obvious question to ask is why anyone should answer questions raised by a forged memo? It's like a five-year old kid caught taking the last cookie from the jar asking who took the others. By continuing to ignore the obvious (i.e. forged documents) and to divert attention, they just show their single-minded hatred of the President and expose their never-ending effort to bring him down.
Geo. Soros son??????
Good job dawn...... you did precisely the right thing.
Then why wasn't Dan's evening news live here in LA at 6:30pm Eastern?
Yet the IBM Selectric Composer's own manual makes superscripting of the type seen in the CBS forgeries impossible. This section is taken from page 51 of the manual (page 56 of the .pdf):
As you can see, the super- and sub-scripting available to these typewriters only involved the raising or lowering of letters; it obviously couldn't make them any smaller, since the wheel was fixed-point.
To repeat: a typewriter could only raise or lower letters -- it couldn't make them smaller or larger because the wheel used fixed-size characters. The CBS forgeries contain Microsoft-style mini-font superscripts, which could not be done even on a typewriter with superscripting ability.
The only way a fixed-type machine could have made the Microsoftian-style superscripts is if there was a special key for "st" or "th" -- and, according to the IBM manual's page 167 (page 172 of the .pdf), there were no such special character unit values.
For CBS to say "but typewriters in the day could do superscripts" ignores the whole point of why the superscripting in the forged documents are so persuasive -- the letters on a fixed-size metal wheel can't just get smaller or larger. They must know this, and therefore their continued attempts to deceive the American public are even more sickening.
That is my understanding. I am as much an expert on this as Marcel wassizname on SeeBS.
There were also optical typesetting machines that would create letters photographically and could print a page of typeset material using a silver stat process. Those machines cost $20,000 and were seriously hard to learn to use.
"Comparing both candidates handwriting (especially as it concerns the dotting of i s), it becomes apparent to the layest of laymen that John Kerry's heart-dots show a true war hero who loved his country enough to cry out against the war. While the illegitimate W.'s non-descript dotting shows a man clearly on the run from his official duties. And most likely, a possible puppy abuser."
Kerning is the amount of space between individual letters. Computer word-processing programs know how to put the optimal amount of space between any two letters in a way most pleasing to the human eye. Typewriters cannot do this. The Democrats are attempting to confuse people by saying that typewriters were available in the early 1970s that offered "proportional spacing." That is true, but proportional spacing is not the same thing as kerning. Kerning is proportional spacing taking up an order of magnitude, and it can only be done by hand, or by computer. Not by typewriter.
Since the documents exactly match the kerning done automatically by Microsoft Word, it is impossible that the documents were created in 1973. IMPOSSIBLE. The only explanation is that they are frauds.
And why is Marcel saying that it is important to note that the White House hasn't disputed whether or not the documents are authentic? What difference does that make to a suppossed independent expert?
Thanks. I posted it as a separate thread immediately at the end of Rather's segment, but the thread was pulled as duplicating the jist of this live thread.
The information you provided is not from Indymedia itself, it is a posting on the Indymedia open newsline. Anyone can post anything on the newsline. Try it.
Exactly, what rebel rouser!
Authenticating fraud....where are the originals?
Check them for biometric information.
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