Kelario

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What is the project exactly?

A'ight. Prepare for rant. My key points: Humans are not animals. Animals, therefore, do not have the same rights of humans. However, animals do have rights that we should respect. Animal rights groups do not actually know what animals think about their lives. Point #1: Humans are not animals. This is a huge discussion, and it usually ends up being a fight between religious people who believe God created them and atheists who believe man evolved from ape. These are called, respectively, the theory of intelligent design and the theory of natural selection (of humans, that is). Both names, particularly in the case of natural selection, are actually inaccurate because we have no concrete proof, only evidence; therefore they are hypotheses, not theories or laws. I, a believer in God and intelligent design, say this: there is overwhelming evidence to support both sides of the argument, so both sides must be true. It is relatively often these days that things pop up in nature (the Ten Commandments on Mars, unfortunately, were a hoax), such as the cross made of girders after 9/11, and the glowing Virgin Mary statue which happened when, last week?, that evidence the fact that God exists. On the other hand, a commonly cited example of natural selection is the peppered moth, which during the Industrial Revolution, shifted the majority of its population from white moths to black moths (which some people want to do with humans, but that's a story for another time) because of pollution and soot on the trees. But let's apply natural selection to humans. I bring you Professor Hubert Farnsworth: You will notice that every species listed is extinct. I may note that scientific classification is rarely based on actual DNA, but on similar physical characteristics. While the species look similar, it is highly probable that they are unrelated, and there is no way to prove that they are in fact related. Animals may have been descended from each other, because there are various species of different types of animals, but there is only one remaining type of human, Homo sapiens, and we cannot ascertain that others existed in the past. Point #2: Animals, therefore, do not have the same rights as humans. You will notice I did not say "Animals, therefore, do not have rights." That's meant for plants. I said animals do not have the same rights as humans. That means humans have rights because of their unique intelligence that animals do not, and also that animals have some rights that humans do not because animals do not have the mental capacity to know any better. For example, humans have the right to own things and to get married because these are institutions created by man that animals would not understand, and animals have the right to kill each other and break human law as they please because they can't and don't know it's morally wrong. Whether animals have laws of their own, we cannot know, but we do know that if animals have any kind of society it is fundamentally different from human society and the two should not mix. Point #3: Animals do have rights that we should respect. Would you like being left alone somewhere to resort to cannibalism? This was an animal abuse issue in my town within the past couple years. There was an old guy who owned a house, but had to go to the nursing home and hired a lady to take care of his house while he was gone. That lady shoved about 20 cats and dogs into the house and never went back; my family went inside to investigate the loud barking and found the floor (of a really nice house, too) covered with animal crap and shredded carcasses. Following further research, we found that the lady had interfered at the nursing home, and the old guy starved to death as well. So here's some rights animals don't have - to a degree - when humanity is involved. The right to life. Animals don't have this anyway; they eat each other all the time because they need their protein. Humans also need their protein, and in order to do this they have to hunt/farm kill animals. This is why vegans have health problems. Freedom of movement. We fence in animals for a reason, because we want to keep them. And you know what else? It's okay because as far as we know, the animals don't care. If animals really cared that they were being fenced in, we would have been overthrown Animal Farm style æons ago. Here's a few rights animals do have - again, to a degree: The right to life. If we don't want to kill an animal directly, immediately, it should be left alone, and if being farmed, fed and kept alive. As for pets, it's also a bit mean to euthanize them for random reasons, like relocating (I've seen a cat shot because its owners were moving). Freedom of movement. Animals, for health reasons, should be allowed to walk around some. Presumably this is why hunted-animal meat tastes better than Walmart meat: the hunted animal walked around the woods a lot more than the Walmart animal, who lived in a 10-square-foot stall. Freedom from pointless pain. I remember a few years ago, the lady who was selling "goth kittens" with clipped ears and rings. This is objectionable for obvious reasons. Freedom of speech, because humans can't understand what the hell they're saying. We don't speak their language, and until we do, they can say whatever they want without fear of reprimand. Point #4: Animal rights groups do not actually know what animals think about their lives. I said before we don't speak the languages of animals. Those people who say they speak for animals because "animals can't speak for themselves" are absolutely right - animals don't talk, and therefore we cannot know what they actually think of us. There is no way that we can "speak for animals" because animals can't communicate their thoughts to us. I implore you all to watch South Park, season 8, episode 8, "Douche and Turd," which brings up exactly this issue. I had intended here to link animal rights to totalitarian government, but I've been writing this for an hour. I'm tired.

This thing frickin LIES. I would rate myself an INTJ, with statistics of Introverted (~80%), iNtuitive (~68-72%), Thinking (~49%), Judging (~60%); it only makes sense that I listen to music that says things like "Gott brennt die Welt" ("God burns the world" - Eisbrecher's 1000 Flammen). This test rates me an INTP, with statistics of Introverted (67%), iNtuitive (62%), Thinking (38%), Perceiving (33%). This, quite frankly, is bulls###.

Combo breaker. Rate mine before you post.

8/10

8/10 Nice

Takes probably an hour and a half to get to sleep, and for some reason I only do go to sleep if I'm on my front on top of crossed arms. I've learned to resist audible alarms, so I've stuffed my phone in my pillowcase and set it to vibrate.

4/10

Geblendet, verhungert und verendet Die beste Zeit verschwendet An eine Schlampe wie dich Du bist ein Miststueck! That is: Blinded, starved, and killed The best time wasted On a bitch like you You're a (yes, seriously) piece of horseshit!

Not Discord's proposition, no. One of my main life goals is to somehow bargain with God, so that I get to live until 1) Equestria, the Poke'mon world, or both are recreated on some other planet, or 2) I reach the age of 2287 (this would kill me in 4287, which is my lucky number), whichever comes first. In the realm of reality, I'd prefer not to know the actual date of my death, though I have a funny feeling I'm going to go to college in four years and forget to eat.

Game glitches. Since the player controls the protagonist, I always feel like I'm playing from the eyes of the protagonist, and when something's weird, it just gives me the chills and then I can't sleep at night. This is why I end up nocturnal when I'm hacking a Poke'mon game. Do you have mosquitos in your area? Unlike ladybugs, dragonflies are actually helpful because mosquitos are their main source of food. Think about that next time.

My sig has an Easter egg. I challenge you to find it and respond.

Last summer, I traded my ZombiU for my friend's Spore, which looked appealing. I went home, installed it, authenticated, and started playing. It was fun for a while, then I got bored. We've since moved that computer to another room, and now I'm having problems. You see, that computer runs Vista, which everyone knows is a steaming pile of crap: Spore, being the stupid EA game it is for which EA was sued, has a DRM. I've already authenticated the game, but EA wants to do it again. This shouldn't be too much of a problem, except this time, the computer has no internet whatsoever. It's completely stuck offline, and seeing as Spore is totally playable offline, it makes no sense that it should have to connect to the internet at all. (XBone didn't learn from this.) There are two routers in my home, and Vista will connect to neither one of them. One of them is currently functioning only as a LAN, because it doesn't recognize the ethernet cable plugged into it and won't connect to the internet. The other one, Vista says does not respond. The interwebz yield no help for any problem here. What do I do?

This shouldn't need further explanation. What's the meanest thing you've ever done to somebody after which you walked away with no remorse, or indeed walked away happy? Mine in a nutshell, happened yesterday: (It was following that that I realized exactly how much I hate that girl.)

Too much English, 9/10

In Alaska, the actual most conservative state in the United Canadian States. Texas just gets all the attention because they have more people. We seem to be keeping our head out of the national/world issues, probably because we don't feel as threatened by Vladimir Putin as America does. Last year, there were three long sagas that went down, over marijuana, oil taxes, and school choice. Marijuana saga: Having seen Washington and Colorado legalize marijuana and subsequently drop the prospect of a sober population, some people in Alaska were allowed by the state government to collect 30,000 petition signatures to get the issue on the voter ballot. They got the signatures in the allotted timeframe. (Keep in mind that up here, quite a few villages have banned alcohol (#1 reason for natives getting arrested), so this is a big thing.) This has dissolved to less of a state controversy as something of which my teachers continually voice their support. Oil tax saga: The 2013 legislative session repealed the crappy oil tax system in place to keep Shell and BP here instead of moving to North Dakota. Crazy people got the petition signatures to put on the ballot the reinstatement of the crappy tax system. This is the thing about which people actually seem to care, because under the old system (and now), our gas prices are roughly $1 higher per gallon than in America. I've heard that we're stupid enough to export the little petrol we drill to Canada and then buy it right back. School choice: This is an ongoing thing in the state government. Basically, it allows state money to flow to private schools, making them free and therefore open to anyone, not just rich people. I supported this thoroughly until our federal representative came to my school and said that the bill would therefore allow the state to tell the private schools what to do, and now I don't know what to think. As for homosexuality: The state constitution includes a recent provision that marriage is a man and a woman. As I said before, Alaska is conservative; nobody supports gay marraige, and I think people would complain if somebody attempted to remove it.

Hooray, internet. Once again telling me everything except what I want to know. I have a get-rich-quick plan for the next few years: buy cheap, non-working cars on Craigslist, melt them into ingots, and sell the raw metal, earning a huge profit. Judging by exactly how much metal cars have and the fact that platinum (!!!) is included, this could actually be very profitable if the cars are old and dead. As with anything, however, it has a catch. I'm pretty sure car metals are all alloys. I've worked with molten metal before, and I know that mixing lead with antimony produces a new PbSb metal that is either hard or difficult to separate. I would like to separate my alloys into their base metals so that I can have pure metal to sell. The internet says only how to do this with electrolysis, and it restricts it to gold, silver, and copper rather than having a general method that would apply most metals. What's a good way to do this?

My parents have sworn that they will cut off my internet in retaliation for poor, non-transcripted grades lately. Fortunately, they remembered only to take my laptop. My Kindle Fire's battery is dead, so I'm posting this from my 3DS late at night. My personal, secure router is a Netgear N900 a year old. I have checked the connections and turned it off and on again, but the control panel at 192.168.1.1 says the ethernet is unplugged. On first check, the wall end was indeed unplugged (suspicious), but I have fixed that and the router does nothing different. My LAN works, my internet doesn't. The cord is intact. What do I need to fix?

TL;DR but from what I did get to hear 7/10 Quality begins at 0:18

9/10 Music video censored. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNtBK8t4ic

Wrong video, 3/10

8/10, too much English and [word removed to avoid ban] music video. The following song lays out exactly what I think of the poster after me. Original: 2012 remix: