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Originally posted by kaylaluv
I don't see that you answered Spoor's question. What would make you take back your statement that "Justice is blind and deaf"? What evidence would make you say that the ruling was a correct one?
Originally posted by Thermo Klein
Mara Zebest is no pseudo expert she's the one who wrote the book, LITERALLY, on how to use PhotoShop. She verified the document from White House .gov is in 5-layer PhotoShop format with obvious changes to several different areas.
When we look at all of these elements together, we can make a few guesses about what sort of artifacts we would expect in the PDF. First, we note that it is quite possible that parts of the text may be represented by different encoding schemes. In figure 5, for example, Zebest points out that the '4' and the '1' in the serial number appear to be different. Zebest is here comparing apples and oranges - the '1' was assigned to the color layer, and is encoded using a multi-bit color mapping, while the '4' was compressed with JBIG, and is thus monochrome. The 'noise' that Zebest is talking about exists only in her mind.
We would also expect that some symbols would be repeated. In figure 6, she notes that the 'i' is identical despite appearing in two different places. As we have seen, this is due to the compression algorithm deciding that they are similar enough to represent with the same symbol. This phenomenon occurs quite frequently in the compressed image - even the '1st' and '2nd' checkboxes in section 4 of the document were replaced with the same symbol, but the '3rd' was not. This strongly indicates that the duplicate detection was done via software rather than a human agency.
In short, by being ignorant of the manner in which image compression works in PDFs, Zebest's analysis is completely useless. Most of her points are irrelevant, and thus the "forgery" accusation remains unproven.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
and take further action to force Obama to produce the required documents.
But it is becoming obvious that he can't produce them.
This is going to get nasty, and I am going to enjoy every single split second of it.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
reply to post by Starchild23
Well HE may think it does. But eventually, as this moves up the ladder, if the courts in this country are worth 1 single red penny anymore, they MUST uphold the citation, and take further action to force Obama to produce the required documents.
But it is becoming obvious that he can't produce them. Or else he would have. It's one thing to ignore a bunch of birthers, but it is another to ignore a judge. This is going to get nasty, and I am going to enjoy every single split second of it. If he IS a fraud, it needs to shown.