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Re: Signs, Signs, everywhere a Sign
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lugnet.trains.org
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Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:39:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, Mike Walsh writes:
> In North Carolina (at least around here) it is a one mile stretch AND, it is
> hard to get one, particularly around Research Triangle Park. Every company
> in the area has adopted a piece of highway. I looked into it for our office
> a few years ago and I think there was a nominal fee involved (covered the
> cost of the sign I think) in order to adopt a highway.
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> Mike
It's such a blindingly obvious fake! Even at first glance, why is there
compression fringing around the 'Adopt a Highway' text, but absolutely none
around the NGLTC? Not only that but the NGLTC text has perfect regular
anti-aliasing, which you just don't get on a real digital still.
If you zoom in, you'll see that the top and bottom edges of the middle sign
drop by a whole pixel from left to right, yet the text on it is exactly
horizontal. Also the three 'r's in the text are pixel-for-pixel IDENTICAL.
There is no way this would happen on a real still.
So why? What's the point? As people have pointed out, you really can adopt
stretches of highway and have your name on a sign (the original sign
exists), so why fake one? Why not put in the effort and pick up some
rubbish, instead of producing it?
Jason J Railton
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| "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3ABA3F5C.751F@m...ing.com... (...) [ ... snipped .. ] . (...) In North Carolina (at least around here) it is a one mile stretch AND, it is hard to get one, particularly around Research (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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