Archive for March, 2006
Another victory for marketting
It sounds like something from a Klan flyer. Say hello to White Day.
How to output the results of a function in a template file in Ruby?
Once again given the chance to play with Ruby, I’ve found another problem :/
Let’s say we have this function:
Def abc
render_text “abc”
end
How can I output this in a template file the first time it is loaded (for example, list.rhtml)? (I see the Render Partials function, but that doesn’t seem to be useful for what I am doing since there is no rhtml for the function in question)
Edit
Well the first place I looked was to action rendering. Unfortunately this is not doing the job, I gotta keep looking 
Awful Adsense ads.
I looked at the Adsense ads today and saw there were ads for GMAC. If you are dumb enough to buy a GM after all i have written here, you deserve what you get. (This is nearly as funny as the time I had Sony ads on the top, after all the horrible things I said about their laptops)
And ignore any 300$ GMAC advertisements. They are BS used to harvest email addresses. Thank you.
Canadian Senator speaks out..?
I don’t know how constructive this is, but it is shocking to see a senator actually come out and say this stuff.
From CBC News
A Liberal senator has replied to a family in Minnesota upset about Canada’s seal hunt with a letter denouncing the United States for executing prisoners at home and killing people in Iraq.
Senator Celine Hervieux-Payette says Americans are in no position to criticize the Canadian seal hunt.
The McLellan family had written to Canadian senators to say they cancelled a vacation in Canada because of the hunt, which they called “horrible” and “inhumane,” Montreal’s La Presse reports.
In her response, Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette said that what she finds horrible is “the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners – mainly blacks – in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, the destabilization of the entire world by the American government’s aggressive foreign policy, etc.”
She said Americans are not in a position to criticize others. “They must start to look at their own behaviour, the permanent heightening of the planet’s insecurity since the election of Bush,” she told La Presse.
“All senators received the letter from the McLellans and I was the only one to respond,” she said.
The family “did not choose a good cause,” she added.
In their letter, the McLellans said they love Canada and have Canadian ancestors but cancelled a trip to Canada last year because of the seal hunt and will scrap plans for one this year if the spring hunt goes ahead, La Presse said.
Hervieux-Payette, a lawyer and former Liberal MP, was appointed to the Senate in 1995 by then prime minister Jean Chrétien. She last drew public attention with a private member’s bill in 2004 to outlaw spanking of children.
In defending the seal hunt, she called it a centuries-old practice and part of the livelihood of coastal residents both native and white.
She invited the McLellans to come to Canada to see a humane society that lives in safety and respects the traditions of its native people.
It is not clear whether she might pay a penalty for remarks that could be seen as anti-American. Once appointed, senators have a job until retirement at 75.
The Hypocrisy of Free Speech
Let’s see – after all the bleating about Free Speech and how it is important, and how the “muds” of the 3rd world can’t appreciate freedom, we see the truth.
Free Speech was not created so people could throw stones at each other. It was created so that people could be liberated from the tyranny of their leaders. Where are all the self-righteous when a political parody site which is exactly what free speech is meant for gets shut down for apologizing for the Iraq War?
It’s pathetic. Insult someone’s religion, and we need to stand up for Western values – degrade Western democracy, and we need to sweep it under the table.