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Yakko Warner: 2012-08
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The Lying Mainstream Media. I remember the first time I was truly angry at "mainstream media" for manipulating facts to provoke a certain response. I was in college in the mid-1990s, and there was a story widely reported about a schoolteacher who had written "Where are my glasses? Second, she used water-soluble paints that washed off easily. It was extremely unlikely that such markings would still be visible for "days", without some help from studio makeup artists anyway. Third, the girl was visually imp...
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Yakko Warner: 2014-04
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Consequences of free speech. A lot has been made recently of Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling, being caught on tape saying some pretty racist things, bad enough for the NBA to ban him for life, fine him $2½ million, and force him to sell his team. From what I've heard, this result seems like a net positive for society as a whole, but how. This whole thing has come about makes me very worried for the direction this country is headed. But what were the "recent events"? No, that was years ago (be...
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Yakko Warner: MVC, JSON, and DateTime (oh my)
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MVC, JSON, and DateTime (oh my). It's been a while since I've had a programming issue that warrants a blog post, but here's an interesting one. First, let me set up the situation. I have an MVC project (MVC version 5.0) that communicates to RESTful services using WebAPI (version 5.1). In one particular view, I write out an object in JSON with the intent that the client can make changes to it and POST it back to an MVC action to get an HTML table back. Here's the model:. Request) { … }. The EffectiveDate ...
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Yakko Warner: 2014-03
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My New Year's Resolutions. Giving God what was left over. In practice, I had it backwards. So yeah, that's it. Those are my New Year's resolutions. Nothing earth-shattering or anything, but I feel like they are realistic, attainable goals that I can actually keep. And now, here they are in writing, so I can hold myself accountable. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Christian father, programmer, and video gamer just trying to make his way in the world. View my complete profile. My New Years Resolutions.
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Yakko Warner: Consequences of free speech
http://www.yakkowarner.com/2014/04/consequences-of-free-speech.html
Consequences of free speech. A lot has been made recently of Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling, being caught on tape saying some pretty racist things, bad enough for the NBA to ban him for life, fine him $2½ million, and force him to sell his team. From what I've heard, this result seems like a net positive for society as a whole, but how. This whole thing has come about makes me very worried for the direction this country is headed. But what were the "recent events"? No, that was years ago (be...
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Yakko Warner: 2014-08
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How is escrow not a scam? To their credit, I have not yet had a mortgage company fail to pay either of these things on time.). Still, before now, it was just a hurdle I had to jump before I could start repairing my home. This time around, it's worse. Because the insurance payment was over a specific amount, my mortgage company demands I endorse the check and send it to them, and they will deposit it in a separate escrow account, and only give me money from it when I turn in receipts for repairs.
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Yakko Warner: 2012-07
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ComcastCares really does care. During the week, on a particularly hot day, the internet service was being very unstable again. It did seem like, the hotter the day, the less stable my internet connection (although that could just be correlation, since really hot days are days I'd rather spend inside in the A/C). I decided to send a tweet to the @ComcastCares. I used my phone to fire off a tweet to @ComcastCares, and it was fixed within minutes. No rep that I've spoken to about this can figure out why...
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Yakko Warner: 2012-10
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Microsoft Store fixing my preorder. This is a follow up to the previous post. After yet another exchange of emails saying "You weren't charged, so it was canceled" and "I wanted. To be charged, why was it canceled", I got an email from another "escalation specialist". He referenced my exchange with Aubrey, so I figured this new person was taking over for the previous one, and he offered to re-place the order and get all my preorder bonuses for me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Yakko Warner: My New Year's Resolutions
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My New Year's Resolutions. Giving God what was left over. In practice, I had it backwards. So yeah, that's it. Those are my New Year's resolutions. Nothing earth-shattering or anything, but I feel like they are realistic, attainable goals that I can actually keep. And now, here they are in writing, so I can hold myself accountable. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Christian father, programmer, and video gamer just trying to make his way in the world. View my complete profile. My New Years Resolutions.
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Yakko Warner: 2014-07
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Attraction doesn't always mean action. So here's a really interesting story. Now, here's where I'm about to get very unpopular. Take that same story, but replace all references to sexual attraction to children, with sexual attraction to members of the same sex. Suddenly, it goes from a story of inspiration and self-control to one worthy of derision because of its support of self-denial and giving in to homophobia. So what's the difference? Why is this form of sexual attraction ok, and others aren't?