George

I'm planning on developing a videogame. I've been planning out what I want it to be for a while, and am still pondering how I want to carry it out. Essentially, the game is a giant physics engine taking place at a subatomic level in a high fantasy setting. To put it simply, it is a world with a different standard model. The game will require:

Spherical distance rendering

A heck of a lot of memory

3D rendering capabilities ( Transparency, No textures, primitive shapes, lighting )

Multiplayer Capabilities

A great physics engine

I'm an indie developer of 14, still in school. I'm planning to develop for non-propierty cross platform solutions such as web technologies (HTML5/WebGL), Java, Android, et cetera. I know this project will take a very large period of time, so I want to develop for a platform that I know will still exist in the future, and will perform relatively well on a variety of devices.

I am a Canadian fourteen year old citizen. Now, please put that information aside. Do place prejudice upon me as a result of my age or the stance I argue for. Maybe I am simply playing devil's advocate. Who knows? The end result is, my social identification matters not. What I say, here, matters.

For a seven years, I have been homeschooled. As a result, my first day of school was in grade eight. It was a Christian private school, and with quite low standards as far as I know. My social skills are miserable, and I was surprised to get a few friends. Anywho I got tagged as 'a smart kid', and it was left at that. The reasons behind this were simple: My vocabulary is excessive, I enjoy computer programming, physics, and science as a whole, and I don't give a rat's *** about sports. Honestly I have too little appreciation for the term, as those who say it are essentially self-degrading and label l themselves as 'dumb'. I believe that all human beings are equal, and no paradigm by which we see the world can change that! Thus ends my irrelevant rant.

Anyhow, I consistently appreciated my new environment, often conforming, and often struggling to grasp why the heck I got decent grades when I clearly bombed the project.

My birthday was a few days ago. For it, I asked my parents for a stock android tablet for development purposes. They struck a bargain with some store opening pressure sales giveaway whatnot, and got a free tablet. It's instruction manual said nothing but: "MID Android", and I have no idea what it is. No matter, it's pretty sick! Whilst showing my mother how to use the gmail app, it automatically logged into my account, and sitting there was a #$%*() spam message from Facebook! Instantaneously, she grounded me for two weeks, demanded my password, and when I asked: 'Why?' she said that I was too young to have any rights to privacy whatsoever. Such, does not strike me very well, but it brings me to a question:

Do teenagers have any rights?

Which lead to several more:

Do I have a right to privacy?

Is a teens fate largely dependent on their parents?

I jest: 'Should there exist a parenting license?'

Honestly, I see that most teenagers aren't very responsible but has society made them so by relaxing our standards too much?

Whenever someone asks a question similar to this, I see a load of fallacy. Please think in extremely simplistic and abstract terms in order to avoid this.

I'm an avid programmer, and I want something that is stable, heavily modifiable, lightweight, portable, and practical. At one point, I downloaded Ubuntu via wubi, but it ran incredibly slow, as I'm on a laptop, and lacked customization. Anywho, I might give it another go. Currently, I want to try backtrack, but numerous failed flash drive writes via the 'Universal USB Installer' left me quite frustrated.

I downloaded a Chromium OS zip file from Hexxeh for Windows. I extracted it to my USB, and it ended as a disk image (img) file. On restarting my computer, I pressed F2, and made sure that my computer would check for USB drives on boot as first priority. Unfortunately, it won't recognise the USB. What can I do?

The problem is, the individual completely lacks rights, though, is this actually how the government should respond to dependants? To sum it up, the average teenager/kid has no right whatsoever other than to live, not be abused, and to have a decent education. Even yet, our rights practically don't exist. Many would rant, ' You cannot support yourself, thus you are a delinquent who is over his head! You're lucky that you don't have to support a family! ', in a much less grammatical format. One with a clear conscience can actually conclude that adults have these very rights as well due to a system known as welfare, and what keeps an adult from attending school?

There are a few rights which I would like to point out and are commonly abused:

- I have the right to voice my opinion.

I am not talking about slander, I'm talking about the right to say something adequate without being given severe punishment and an abuse of a parent's right to voice themselves; slander. I am also extremely annoyed by the lack of ability to perform this on the internet when one is under thirteen, sometimes eighteen, years of age. I myself am only thirteen by a matter of days, but I find it outrageous that one must lie to every single website he visits in order to get adequate service.

- Mobility Rights

Yes, it would be a nightmare if everyone was allowed to drive, but that is not my concern. Is it not that I'm allowed to leave my guardian's property? I cannot see anything wrong with it, and it's rather silly that parents are overall masters of a teenager's life. What if I wanted to escape a harsh environment which vastly judges me, even temporarily?

- The right to an education.

This is a right, NOT a forced imprisonment, and it is not enforced well, at all. Why? The government only funds minimal education. This is a very capitalist idea, and not at all benificial due to academic inflation. I am forced to be educated, yet, a highschool diploma is worthless as I'll still end up working at some cheap fast-food resturant unless I attend university, which the government doesn't support!

To be honest, this is a rant, yet I am trying to point out that children/teens have RIGHTS, not minimal standards for life.