From: Stuart
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
HOWEVER………… I gave a
URL where you can e-mail and ask.
AGAIN: http://www.abc-charters.com/
Still not going to do it,
That figures after your alegations it was faked.
see
that I have not made a statement about flights.
I see that you claimed there were no direct flights from the US to Cuba.
Why should it seem funny in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY? Or on a CHARTER flight? You continue to offer opinions on things you know NOTHING ABOUT!
They have pens don’t they?
Not many guy, again you remail CLUELESS about the poverty in Cuba. The "AVERAGE" Cuban earns $4.00 a month. A well paid Cuban earns $8.00 a month and the elite make $25.00 a month.
The boarding passes are supplied by Continental airlines. They bring a page of stickum seat assignments. You turn in the ticket, they give you a boarding pass, you buy the Tax Stamp you see on it for $25.00, and then go through immigration to a waiting room. When your flight is called you show your pass to the Department of Interior folks and the people from Continental and get on the plane. You also note a Korean war vintage Jeep with a machine gun mounted in back nearby.
Only AFTER you have offered closed statements of FACT do you later say
"well I don’t know wanything about it."
You like being picky and twisting peoples sentences don’t you.
Not really! But when you offer statements of "FACT" that in reality are stupid off the wall comments froom invisible third parties that are NOT facts at all that encourage Moore to harass me all over the net, what do you expact? Do you suppose I will just sit here silent while you pour gasoline on the fire with statements that have NO basis in fact?
I have not offered any closed statements of fact but I did pass on my friends
opinion, show me otherwise?
First you offered your "friend’s" opinion as "FACT": and added your own endorsement to it with other statements attached, sometimes as negative questions.
Opinions are allowed you know, they are not considered closed statements of
fact!
The question is a "FACT" question, when you offer an opinion it must be based on some factual underpinning. Now you are being childish.
Everybody has an opinion and just
because it differs from yours doesn’t make it wrong
Have you ever taken a course in "logic" in school? If you haven’t had one yet, I suggest you take one. In this case the question is a FACT based question, not something like "in my opinion there is a God." If you said; "in my opinion there is no God" that’s a valid opinion. However If the question that is under discussion is a fact based issue, and if I had said, I have had a personal meeting with God, it is not reasonable for you to say "in my opinion you didn’t" unless you have some factual basis to say that, such as; "It’s my opinion that you didn’t becuse I was with God at that time." That really isn’t an opinion you are making a contradictory claim of fact.
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If you are such an expert in photoshop then why do you need to ask the
question in the first place?
1. I never claimed to be an expert in anything.
2. What seems to escape you is that IF I actually went to Cuba, and those ARE my Ticket for one flight and boarding pass for the other, then it isn’t my "OPINION" it is my KNOWLEDGE, GOT IT?
My litte enemy (David Moore) has been blaming me for his actions via anonymous remailers for years. Moore did not know I was out of the country in November, so his antics continued through out the month. I was getting blamed for the attacks by some of his rather DULLARD victims of forgeries to their named, and death threats which is his FAVORITE tool. When I answred one of the most continually aggitated morons, telling them it wasn’t me, since I was in a country where there is NO internet, and I was in a part of the country where there were not even telephones, Moore, KNOWING he was going to be exposed to the few people he was able to fool, began his denial that I ever went to Cuba. He won’t accept photos of me in Cuba claiming they are easy to fake. So I offered the ticket for my flight TO Cuba and the boarding pass on my return with the Stamp of the Cuban authorites for the exit tax. Almost impossible to fake.
As his dupes began to absndon him when I put the scan up on my website, he started claiming it was altered in photoshop eventually SIX TIMES! I may not be an expert on Photoshop, but I do KNOW that an image altered SIX TIMES in Photoshop will SCREAM that it has been altered.
I then asked the question HERE, expecting ADULTS who DO know photoshop to respond. Instead I got CHILDREN! We got into inane "there are NO flights from the US to Cuba" and "My freiend is an executive with American and no such flight number exists." All sorts of silly assed fact claims NONE of which works out, and ALL of which I easily disproved. I wanted to get back to the central question of alterations on the NAME on the TICKET………. NOTHING was asked about the boarding pass until YOU claimed it was a FAKE. Now you say it is because no name is on it that the white is "too even" where the name should be.
Well going on that statement you should have kept quiet from the start! I have
used photoshop for a couple of years (and if you have ever used it you would understand when I say – I would consider myself to be a fairly new user), I may not be an expert but I am far from a beginner and still consider myself to be learning. Your original post was just another thing to try and do but turned into you getting arsey about what I supposedly said.
Not about what you supposedly said, what you DID say. Again the point is that if you were not sure of wthether it was altered, you should have skipped the subject. Instead at one point you ovffered that it was "obviously altered." Then you backtracked and tried to explain what you said when I challenged you.
I don’t think you understand, that IF I went to Cuba, is is NOT my "OPINION" that I KNOW (apart from photoshop) that I went.
I am not going to argue with you on your ability to make a toll free call from the UK.
But you could check independently by asking Ana at the Charter company in e-mail. You CHOOSE to refuse to do that, instead offering third people’s alleged opninions. I come back to the point that if you were not "ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN" it was the kind of question and situation where you should have NOT joined in with baseless OPINIONS supporting that it is a FAKE!
Yet I see no real steps to correct your
original claims. And in doing what you do you pour gasoline on the flame
war
and help distort it even more.
Well if you are such an expert in everything then I can see why you are such a troll.
Look TWIT I am an ABSOLUTE EXPERT on whether or not I went to CUBA!!
You come on this board and ask a question, you then get answers you don’t like
and start a flame war with your deranged friend.
I asked a question for ADULTS who have the KNOWLEDGE for their opinions to count! I wanted a response from somebody with the experience and KNOWLEDGE to tell a fake. Not a chil’s speculations and off the wall claims about what airline flies where. Or what MUST be printed on a boarding pass. Those comments and opinions are just STUPID. They spiral this into a wild flame war.
I told you I couldn’t answer your question but you kept asking
But not asking YOU! I was hoping to find somebody that new.
so when my friend turned up last weekend I asked him, he sat at this machine
and looked at your picture and the first thing he said was ‘It is a fake’,
That was HIS opinion, DOESN’T MAKE IT A CLOSED STATEMENT OF FACT.
Yes it does. But you omit WHY he said it was a fake. That it is clear white where he THINKS (and YOU think) my name should appear on the BOARDING PASS. And the BOARDING PASS wasn’t the question.
The issue was the TICKET and was THAT altered. TICKET NOT BOARDING PASS>
Issue on boarding pass is different. Is the STAMP faked.
You ahve so much SMOKE on the original question.
The allegation from Moore is that the NAME was doctored SIX TIMES…..
My question was from the ticket stub, WHERE THE NAME IS, does it appear to be altered.
Now with your responses the second question arises. That being that the ticket stub BY ITSELF doensn’t prove I was there, so to EXIT Cuba (meaning you were there to leave) you ahve to get that TAX STAMP that appears on the boarding pass. So the second question is HAS THAT BEEN FAKED OR ALTERED?
NAME FIELD ON TICKET
STAMP ON BOARDING PASS.
P.S. There is currently a program on here in the UK about a some brickies working in Cuba, it is called ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’, heard of that program before? So I am learning a bit about the place and the culture, very interesting.
Cuba is a wonderful place, the culture is wonderful. It is more than just interesting. Of course my Wife is from Cuba and I have family all over the island. My son in law is Cuban. We don’t get all the programs from the UK as I suppose you don’t get all outs over there unless you have a sattelite receiver for the US programming.
Okay truce, I had a look through some of the messages and this other guy
does seem to be a bit of a nutter. I don’t know how the argument/harassment started but have you tried to do anything to sort it out?
The guy is a STALKER, this has been going on for years. There is no sorting things out with somebody who has such an obession based on mental illness. I am merely trying to defend myself from the "nutter." You’re not helping, you are helping confuse the issue.
Surely you could get him arrested for harassment and your namesake
website shut down, also couldn’t you sue him for libel or something?
No sadly I can’t. His website is offshore in New Zealand. About 7 years ago, President Clinton hot the "Telecommunicatons Deceny Act" passed into law, part of that law protects what the guy is doing.I can’t sue him or his ISP if it were in America. However complicating it the site is on a server outside the United States with a country with really murkey libel laws. In the UK I could nail the ISP to the barn door. In New Zealand I can’t. And it is NOT as cime in America to lie your ass off about somebody. Some things have taken him very close to criminal action.
A cowardly prosecutor where he lives is afraid to file the charges they could because the guy uses anonymous remailers for so much of his work, and he won’t go get a warrant to do a search to prove it is him. The Feds have, but they don’t talk to the locals.
Most of the things you say are reasonable, and in a world of normal people they apply. The guy is not bolted together well, his website tells most people that he’s deranged. Most of the people he cites are figments of his own mind. He has ONE real person on it. Of course Moore doesn’t talk about his many victims, like John Reinhagen, Joe O’Connor, Judy McLinn, Nacncy Kopfthammer, Stacy Anderson and so MANY MANY more!
Just send the e-mail and it will be answered for sure.