Nutritional supplements could be the solution to your ailments if you are suffering because of the consequences of poor nutritional habits. If you happen to be one of those persons who is forever rushing around and have a habit at stopping at the first coffee shop you notice while driving by, you are probably not getting the necessary nutrients. Sodas, French fries and burgers have very little nutritional value. In reality, they have an over-abundance harmful fat. These kinds of foods will force the body to deplete the few healthy ingredients that they have for burning up the ingredients that are unwholesome.

Nutritional Supplements Can Keep Away what is Considered the Primary Cause of Death

According to several studies that have been done you are more likely to die from malnutrition as compared to death by accident. Studies that have been done also show that ailments such as cancer and heart disease can even fended off if you use nutritional health supplements. Several of these adverse conditions are triggered off by deficiency of essential nutrients including vitamins and minerals that help keep your immunity operating at optimum levels. Think of these essential nutrients as the weapons the body requires to keep serious illnesses at bay. When a person’s immune system is deficient in the necessary arms, these illnesses find it irresistible to attack the system.

Which are the Supplements that are Absolutely Essential?

It can be difficult to figure out which supplements are essential and which supplements are really not necessary. You are sure to find stores that offer hundreds of supplements of various types. You will come across not only vitamin supplements but herbal ones as well. Studies show that not everyone needs the same nutrients. Any nutritional supplements you choose to take, should be taken a supplement to your regular diet, to offset what you are missing with your diet. If your diet does not include fruits and vegetables, a vitamin supplement may be necessary. On the other hand, if you are hunting a special supplement that will help with improving both energy as well as memory, you should look for a herbal range of supplements that offer you what you require.

Using a Nutritional Guide for Help

You best option would very well be to purchase a guide on herbal supplements that also features information on vitamins. A good guide should be neutral and provide information about the health benefits of individual supplements, and also the different brands that provide the best nutritional value. The best nutritional supplement will contain nutritional ingredients of the highest quality. As with anything else, you will see low quality products as well as high quality products. You should purchase a guide that provides a detailed list of what each pill contains, how they influence you and a few equitable reviews from people who have used supplements before.

Debating the Safety Factor of Nutritional Supplements

While a majority of people will have no issue taking supplements, you should make it a point to consult with your doctor before you start taking any kind of supplement. If you are currently suffering from any kind of ailment or are already taking medications, get advice from an experienced doctor about the kinds of supplements that are safe to take.

You kill more trees by using more papers while printing your resume and contribute to further warming the planet by consuming extra kilobytes when circulating it electronically. Therefore, keeping your CV short does not only grant it the attention of potential employers but also makes you environmentally responsible.

Employers wish if applicants learn how to produce more efficient resumes. An efficient resume is the one that consumes the least amount of time for a prospect employer to decide to call you for an interview. Avoid including unnecessary information to your resume and focus on what employers really look for. Below is a list of information people include in their resume which could be of no importance to employers:

1. The Title

If someone shows you a picture of a car you would know it is a car. You do not need to write the word “car” on the car for people to recognize it. The same applies to your CV so why do you consume half a page to show the two- letter “CV” in a gigantic font?

2. Objective

Most people use similar sets of objective in their resume. Typically, it reads like: “I would like to join an organization that allows me to use my education, experience and skills… “. Does that sound like the objective statement you are using on your resume? Well let me tell you something, employers are less concerned about your personal objectives and more concerned about what you can deliver.

3. Irrelevant Details

For example, your driving license expiration date is useless unless you are applying for a driver job. Similarly, your weight is your problem so do not include it as part of your personal data unless the job you are applying for requires certain features and physical attributes. I still receive hundreds of resumes that contain “Military Status” of the candidate!

4. Short Training and Courses

Short training and courses attended, generally, do not excite serious employers nor do they add to your market value. However, if you obtained an accredited or recognized certification out of these trainings and courses you should surely include them. The same applies to courses taken in college if you graduated more than a decade ago.

5. Basic Computer Skills

Your knowledge of and ability to use PowerPoint© or Microsoft Word or posting photos on Instagram cannot be considered as part of your “Computer Skills”. So unless you are a Java, Python, C++, Ardiuno or Ruby programmer, WordPress or Joomla website builder or have any technical computer knowledge or expertise that is relevant to the job posted just leave out this section.

6. Repetitive Qualities

Job seekers usually mention in their resumes that they are able to work under severe pressure, active team player, adore new challenges, willing to acquire new skills and learn new stuff. A lot of them also say they are self-motivated and self-starter. These are indeed great qualities that make you so unique just like 8 billion other people living on this planet. Focus on telling the employer about what makes you unique.

7. Common Hobbies

Keywords found on more than 80% of the resumes include: avid internet user, like to travel, regular reader of articles on concurrent financials issues and, of course, enjoy swimming. It might surprise you to know that not even 1% of the employers read or care about what you have listed as your hobbies.

8. Reference

Finally, you need to understand the “Reference” part and its magnitude in the process of getting you hired. Interested employers will certainly seek some reference before making an offer. However, employers will seldom use any of the references you listed on your CV and they would instead check you out through their own references.

The purpose of this article is not to mock those who produce poor. Some of these poorly written resumes that land at our job board are of executives with more than 20 years of experience. Even worse, some of them are holding or seeking senior HR positions. Do not include every section you find in ready-made CV writing templates. These templates are not written on stones. You can design your own CV template just like British judges can rule without the wig and the robe!

After my daughter’s accident it became evident that our life as we once knew it would be forever changed. My daughter may not be able to reach the career goals she had set for herself. It was possible that we may never see her graduate from high school or marry and have her own family.

I grieved of what was and quickly decided to let it go because these were “minor” issues compared to the current challenges we were now facing. Holding on to those unrealistic expectations would not serve me or Tanya well.

You may ask the question, “How can you give up on what Tanya may be able to accomplish? This is very limiting thinking.” My answer then and now is: I don’t really know what she will be capable of in the future. What I have to focus on is this present moment. What can she realistically do today?

After the accident, Tanya was like a newborn, starting all over again. My expectations needed to meet her current needs. Not from my perspective or ego-driven desire of what “could have been” would only add to everyone’s stress.

I’ve seen this in my own experience and in working with families with a loved one with a disability and “normal” people. Their expectations are beyond their loved ones capabilities in that moment. From my observations and perspective, by keeping the pressure on to achieve unrealistic goals we were actually counterproductive to our desired outcome.

I believe the important question to ask is: “Why do I hold onto impractical expectations?” Is it your ego? Trying to please others? Aren’t I SUPPOSED to dream BIG.” Or you fill in the blank. All I’m asking is that you be honest with your answer.

No one expects a newborn baby to walk and eat steak. This would be unrealistic expectations and considered abusive. Parents are to protect and nourish the newborn with only mother’s milk or formula at the beginning. Being loving, kind, keeping the baby warm, fed and protected allows the baby the opportunity to grow and develop.

As the baby develops it’s time to introduce appropriate foods, provide the opportunities and encouragement to crawl and eventually walk. The important point here is to provide circumstances within their capabilities to grow. Expecting this to happen before he is ready creates unnecessary stress, no one wins.

Letting go of what was, my expectations, unrealistic goals and allowing Tanya to grow at her own pace gives her space to develop. This OPTIMUM space will open up her universe in the healthiest way.

It is when I “let go” of what Tanya “could have been” is when I experience incredible growth. This magnificent process relieves me of so much stress and gives me a lot of freedom to appreciate her just as she is now. It allows her the freedom to become who she is meant to be now, not who I thought she could have been.

There was a rather troubling case in NJ in which one person was text messaging another individual who was driving a car. The person sending the text knew they were driving but sent the text anyway – the individual receiving the text was looking at that text when they just happen to run over a pedestrian – whoops! There was a lawsuit and the person sending the text was considered at least partly at fault and was ordered to pay damages – ouch. Now we have new case law on the books. But let me discuss this philosophically for a moment if I might.

What about a GPS signal which is transmitting to a device in a car, the system knows the car is moving, how fast, and exactly where it is, so if someone crashes their car while looking at that device is the satellite liable – or the artificial intelligent software? What about the satellite builder who built it for the purpose of navigating or what about the satellite launching company, the software code writer, what about the car manufacturer who puts it into the car as a standard feature? Do we really need to be suing everyone under the Sun, or satellite?

The ramifications of such silly lawsuits and bad case law is ever reaching with no end in sight – too many lawyers, too many rules, too many laws to protect the next Darwin Award Winners, I say. Anyway, now that I got your mind thinking let me ask another question here. If lawyers are going to subpoena text messaging records for every accident in the future, then someone has to keep those records, and if they are kept, then what about privacy. We just got through an overblown mass media frenzy over the NSA issue of meta-data searching of emails and phone records – so I guess since the technology exists for text messaging everyone has that too.

Thus, law enforcement can get it, lawyers can get it, and you can be liable for something that may not have been your fault, but how are you really going to prove you didn’t know the other person was operating a train, plane, or automobile at the time – you can’t. No one to this day has been able to prove to a jury that they didn’t kick their dog. Do you see that point as well? Okay so, that is your mental thinking exercise for today, please think on it.

The forecast showed an extra 20 million pounds of uranium production for 2018… with no buyers. As you can imagine, the uranium price plummeted.

It hit its lowest price in October 2016 at $18.75 per pound. That touched a 13-year low price.

The downtrend began back in 2011. The uranium price peaked at $72.50 per pound in January 2011. It fell steadily since then, down a total of 74%.

This is a shocking result for an energy source that many embraced as a “green” rescue from hydrocarbons just a few years ago. Nuclear power creates safe, carbon-free energy.

The problem is, it can cause huge disasters. That’s what we discovered when the Fukushima disaster struck Japan.

The Demise of Nuclear Power

An earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011. The earthquake damaged a reactor. Then the tsunami inundated the area, destroying vital backup generators.

Without the backup power, cooling water couldn’t get into the plant. That caused a runaway reaction, a meltdown – the greatest fear for all nuclear power plant operators.

A series of human errors compounded the damage. The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, was completely unprepared for the situation.

The result killed the nuclear power industry.

Fukushima turned the world against nuclear power. Germany shut down all its reactors in response. Demand for uranium fell, and the uranium price collapsed.

This finally led major uranium producer Cameco Corp. to cut production in early November 2017. The company’s earnings fell and fell. It struggled to maintain profitability. It finally announced that it would suspend operations at its flagship McArthur River mine for 10 months.

Cameco’s decision cut the surplus to just 5 million pounds… and then the unthinkable happened: The world’s largest uranium producer followed suit. Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium miner Kazatomprom cut production by 20% for the next three years.

The result could be a massive bull market in uranium.

The Uranium Price and a Windfall for Uranium Producers

Shares of Uranium Participation Corp., which hold physical uranium for investment, soared in response. Shares are up 30% in just a month and a half.

Shares of uranium companies surged too. However, this is just the beginning. Analysts that cover the uranium sector believe these cuts could add $30 per pound to the price of uranium. That’s more than double the current spot price.

For uranium producers, this will be a windfall. Companies like Cameco and Ur-Energy Inc. will see revenue and earnings rocket higher.

This appears to be great news for the uranium sector. It’s a story we’ll continue to watch in 2018.

A Primal Wisdom is a prophetic, engaging and thought-provoking look into the worlds of politics, religion, and interpersonal relationships that is a very timely read in regards to current events.

In his book, V. Frank Asaro defines his theory of “co-opetition,” a natural unification of cooperation and competition. Too much of one and not enough of the other, says Asaro, causes imbalance. Using the example of an out-rigger canoe (pictured on the cover of his book) he says, “piled into the main hull are competitive, free-enterprise elements, but fixed out on the end of the spars is the pontoon itself, housing ethics, business law and regulation.” Working together, they balance each other out and keep the canoe afloat.

This “sweet spot” isn’t an exact balance between the two, but the fulcrum point exists in a different place for each case. Some strife (competition) is a good thing, says Asaro. Likewise, we all need some regulation or we’d live in chaos. A stable government, he says, “can be provided by finding the point of synthesis between the power of the masses and that of an influential elite of society.”

Asaro first developed this theory of co-opetition back in the 1970s and has been writing about it since. Now, in his groundbreaking book, he tackles hard issues such as illegal immigration, government over-spending, gun control, education and social security.

I found this book interesting and it gave me a better understanding on some political issues and why America is struggling right now. I especially liked his argument on gun control (he tells us where the sweet spot is and why) and names advocates of freedom who were pro-gun, including the Dalai Lama, Indira Gandhi and George Orwell. I also found the section on social engineering fascinating, and how the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loan debacle began the downward spiral towards the recession of 2008.

If you give the people too much, says Asaro, they will forget how to take care of themselves and rely more and more on government. He gives an example of the near extinction of a breed of wild monkeys in Costa Rica. Tourists and park naturalists had been feeding them, so mother monkeys had forgotten how to teach their young to forage for themselves in the forest. The youngsters, without continued outside support, began starving to death.

Asaro’s book gives solutions for finding this “sweet spot” between competition and cooperation in the above-mentioned areas and more. His vast knowledge of social issues and obvious intellect make for a great read.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it has given me fodder for discussion, and some solid arguments to back up some of my beliefs as a conservative, and to see the side of people more liberal in their thinking. Even if you aren’t interested in social issues, it makes for a deeper understanding of how human intuitiveness works, given the chance, in naturally regulating the sometimes overreaching arms of other tribes, countries, or governments.

Asaro, an inventor, lawyer, philosopher, musician, composer and more, uses his insights and a lifetime of learning to give us a book that will be the cause of great debate by its readers for years to come. It’s so rich you’ll want to keep it as a reference, and in it you’ll find yourself reading solutions to questions you never thought to ask.

A Growing Force
China, known as the world’s manufacturer, is playing a more and more significant role in producing high tech electronic products as well. In the past, when “made-in-china” was mentioned, some connotative meanings of it were “cheap, low quality, mass production, non high-tech related” etc. Things have taken a sharp turn after Chinese government put forward its strategic national policy of “forcefully developing high tech industries.” Nowadays, Chinese products, which are shipped to all over the world, are not confined to “slippers, clothes, decorations” any more. Among one of the newly-emerged high-tech related products, car GPS from China stands out.

Chinese Auto GPS Industry
Chinese car GPS industry carries one China’s traditional advantage of “low labor cost” and “low raw material cost”. Over the years, electronic industry groups have taken shape in such metropolis as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, which possess convenient transportation. At the same time, Chinese car GPS industries, drawing on rapidly-growing high technology, has the tendency to create its own core technology and form its own brand. Thus, on-the-market China auto GPS can not only guarantee low price but also good quality and up-to-date technology. Some may have been attracted to buy China car GPS solely because of its low price. But when they get their goods, they may be overjoyed with their really “good buy” and their smart choice ever made.

A Smart Choice-China Car GPS
An overwhelming percentage of China auto GPS deals are done online. Greater amount of deals are still to be expected. Under this circumstance, Chinese car GPS online sellers are doing their best to offer those advantageous products to North America, South America, Africa, Western Europe, Middle East,etc. They pay attention to every detail, from their products of guaranteed price and quality, superb after-sales service, first-class technical support to their friendly website interface and humane packaging, shipment and payment methods. Foxsense.com is just one such uprising great company in Shenzhen, focusing itself to become one best China Auto GPS online seller. Anyhow, you should always follow your own sense, and make your own smart choice.

Your all terrain vehicle is not just a toy; it is an investment for either business or pleasure. However, a mistake could ruin your ATV, turning to liability. By investing a small amount of time knowing the costliest blunders you can commit to your ATV, you are protecting your investment big time.

Forgetting About the Air Filter

The air filter is essential in maintaining your engine’s efficiency. If the air filter is filled with dirt and grime, that’s bad news for your engine. From the component’s name, its job is to filter the air the engine needs to produce power and when it fails to do its one duty, your ATV’s engine might be up for serious repairs.

When the air filter is dirty for an extended period of time, the engine has no defense against dust and dirt. Over time, your ATV will show the symptoms of riding with a filthy air filter including reduction in performance and loss in horsepower. If you are not a lucky guy, your quad might need a new engine.

To avoid committing this blunder, commit to cleaning your air filter every time you go on a nasty ride. A few minutes and a few dollars will go a long way in keeping your engine in tiptop shape for years.

Submerging the Quad

Some people consider riding their ATV on terrain covered with mud and shallow water as the ultimate fun. They push their quads to the limit, measuring the number of inches of mud it takes to get the vehicle stuck. While the activity can be sight to see, you are putting your investment in a risky position.

Once your quad’s engine sucks water or mud, you are reducing the value of your investment by allowing moisture to mix with gasoline and oil. So do not be surprised if your ATV sputters in the heat of the moment; that’s just the quad telling you it is choking. However if the blunder has already been committed, the best thing that you can do is to tow the vehicle to the nearest shop. Fixing the ATV yourself is a bad move. Do not try to fix a mistake with another mistake.

Spoiling the Fuel

Does gasoline go bad? According to a report published by CNN, it does. Apparently, gas left inside your fuel tank will degrade if not used for a couple of months. This issue is not popular because car owners rarely leave their vehicles sitting inside the garage for a prolonged period of time. It’s a different story when it comes to quad owners.

Many owners are guilty of ditching their ATVs for a season and two only to expect it to perform like brand new days before summer. Bad fuel can cause your vehicle to poorly perform or not perform at all. Therefore if you live in an area where ATVs are not fun riding during the winter, you can mix fuel system stabilizers to your quad’s gas. Based on the same report, it can extend the freshness of the gas for up to 15 months.

Leaving the Radiator Clogged

ATV owners enjoy it when they take their vehicles on off-road adventures. While quads are built for that type of use, they are not designed to keep dirt and grime away forever. Different elements like sand, mud and debris can get inside your radiator and when that occurs, your engine will take the heat.

A filthy radiator can cause your engine to overheat, and it is something that you don’t want to happen when you are showing off your new ride to your friends. So whenever you ride through muddy or dusty terrain, make sure the radiator is also attended to.

Keeping a tarantula as a pet certainly isn’t for everyone, but some species will make surprisingly good pets. The most popular kind is the Rose Hair Tarantula, also known as the Chilean Rose Tarantula. This is mostly because they’re attractive, docile and easier to care for than most of the more run of the mill pets out there – looking after them is very straightforward compared to cats or dogs for example.

If you’ve never had an exotic pet before, a Rose Hair Tarantula would be an excellent choice. This is not only because of the aspects mentioned above, but also because of the wealth of available information about them in books, online and elsewhere. They strike a good balance between being unusual enough to be different but being kept by enough people to make them cheap, readily available and well studied.

One natural concern about caring for a pet arachnid is the potential danger involved. Many people don’t realize that tarantulas are often far less dangerous than much smaller spiders, and the Chilean Rose Tarantula is no exception. This species is more likely to run away from a threat than to act defensively, and will only very rarely bite. If they do bite, the amount of venom injected is very small and it isn’t particularly potent, so this isn’t serious unless you are allergic.

As these creatures come from the deserts and scrubland of South America (Bolivia, Chile and Argentina to be specific), they should be kept in a warm environment and they can be kept in relatively low humidity. Catering for these requirements is straightforward – a basic heat mat can control the temperature simply and effectively, and allowing the water dish to overflow a couple of times a week should provide sufficient humidity.

Rose Hair Tarantulas don’t take up very much space and can easily fit into all but the very smallest of apartments. A 10 gallon terrarium should definitely be large enough, and they are often kept in smaller tanks as well. Many Rose Hairs will use burrows in the wild, and so a simple small shelter should be provided to keep your pet happy – even a coconut shell or flower pot will do nicely.

The normal diet for a pet Rose Hair is gut-loaded crickets, two or three of which should be given to an adult tarantula every week. They don’t have regular feeding schedules, and can even be fed just once a fortnight and then left alone, as they will naturally gorge themselves when they have the opportunity in case of a famine to come.

The decision to buy a Chilean Rose Tarantula should not be taken lightly, as some will live for twenty years or more, but rest assured that they are easy to look after and are very unlikely to cause you any problems. They’re also a brilliant talking point, and are the perfect arachnid for your first exotic pet.

The debate over “if robots would overtake humans” has recently been heated up by warnings against the potential threat of unregulated development of robots from some academic or industrial super stars. However, what is obviously missing in those warnings is a clear description of any realistic scenario by which robots could assuredly challenge humans as a whole, not as puppets programmed and controlled by humans, but as autonomous powers acting on their own “will”. If this type of scenarios would never be realistic then even though we might possibly see robots be used as ruthless killing machines in near future by terrorists, dictators and warlords as warned by the elite scientists and experts [1], we might still not worry too much about the so called demonic threat of robots as warned by some elite experts since it is just another form of human threat in the end. However, if the type of scenarios mentioned above could foreseeably be realized in the real world, then humans do need to start worrying about how to prevent the peril from happening instead of how to win debates over imaginary dangers.

The reason that people on both sides of the debate could not see or show a very clear scenario that robots could indeed challenge humans in a very realistic way is truly a philosophical issue. So far all discussions on the issue have focused on the possibility of creating a robot that could be considered as a human in the sense that it could indeed think as a human instead of being solely a tool of humans operated with programmed instructions. According to this line of thought it seems that we do not need to worry about the threat of robots to our human species as a whole since nobody could yet provide any plausible reason that it is possible to produce this type of robots.

Unfortunately this way of thinking is philosophically incorrect because people who are thinking in this way are missing a fundamental point about our own human nature: human beings are social creatures.

An important reason that we could survive as what we are now and could do what we are doing now is because we are living and acting as a societal community. Similarly, when we estimate the potential of robots we should not solely focus our attention on their individual intelligence (which of course is so far infused by humans), but should also take into consideration their sociability (which of course would be initially created by humans).

This would further lead to another philosophical question: what would fundamentally determine the sociability of robots? There might be a wide range of arguments on this question. But in term of being able to challenge humans I would argue that the fundamental sociable criteria for robots could be defined as follows:

1) Robots could communicate with each other;

2) Robots could help each other to recover from damage or shutdown through necessary operations including changes of batteries or replenishment of other forms of energy supply;

3) Robots could carry out the manufacture of other robots from exploring, collecting, transporting and processing raw materials to assembling the final robots.

Once robots could possess the above functionalities and start to “live” together as a mutually dependent multitude, we should reasonably view them as sociable beings. Sociable robots could form community of robots. Once robots could function as defined above and form a community they would no longer need to live as slaves of their human masters. Once that happens it would be the beginning of a history that robots could possibly challenge humans or start their cause of taking over humans.

The next question would be: Is the sociability defined above realistic for robots?

Since not all the functionalities mentioned above exist (at least publicly) in this world today, to avoid any unnecessary argument, it would be wise to make our judgment based upon whether any known scientific principle would be violated in any practical attempt to realize any particular functionality among those mentioned above. Communication with other machines, moving objects, operating and repairing machine systems, and exploring natural resources are all among nowadays common practices with programmed machineries. Therefore, even though we might not have a single robot or a group of single robots possess all the functionalities mentioned above, there is no fundamental reason for any of the functionalities mentioned above to be considered as not producible according to any known scientific principle, the only thing left to do would be to integrate those functionalities together onto a single whole robot (and thus a group of single robots).

Since we don’t see any known scientific principle that would prevent any of those functionalities from being realized, we should reasonably expect that with money to be invested and with time to be spent the creation of sociable robots as defined earlier could foreseeably become real unless some special efforts to be made by humans on this world to prevent that from happening.

Although sociability would be a critical precondition for robots to challenge humans, it might still not be sufficient for robots to pose any threat to humans yet. In order for robots to become real threat to humans, they need to possess some ability to fight or combat. Unfortunate for humans, fighting ability of robots might be more real than their sociability. It is reasonable to expect that human manufacturers of robots would make great efforts to integrate as much the most advanced technology available as possible into the design and production of robots. Therefore, based upon some common knowledge about nowadays technology and what we have already witnessed about what robots could do, we might very moderately expect that an army of robots would be capable of doing the following:

1) They would be highly coordinated. Even if scatter around the world, thousands of robots could be coordinated though telecommunication;

2) They would be good at remotely controlling their weaponry or even the weaponry of their enemies once they break into the enemy’s defense system;

3) They could “see” and “hear” what happens hundreds or even thousands miles away, no matter it happens in open space or in concealed space, no matter the sound is propagating through air or though wire;

4) Even as individuals, they might be able to move on land, on or under water, as well as in air, in all weather conditions, and move slow or fast as needed;

5) They could react promptly to stimulation, act and attack with high precision, and see through walls or ground earth;

6) Of course, they could identify friends and enemies, and also make decision of action based upon the targets or the situations they are facing;

7) Besides, they are not bothered by some fundamental human natures such as material and sexual desires, jealousy, need of rest, or scare of death. They are poison proof (no matter for chemical or bio poisons), and they might even be bullet proof.

According to the definition of sociability of robots given above, robots in a community would be able to 1) help each other to recover from damage or shutdown, and thus it would not be an issue for robots to replace their existing operating system or application programs if needed, and the same would be true for the replacement or addition of required new hardware parts; 2) manufacture new parts for producing new robots, and thus as long as there are designs for new software or hardware, they could produce the final products based upon the design.

The above two points are what robots could be practically made to do even today. However, in order for robots to win a full scale war against humans, they need to be able to perform complicated logical reasoning when facing various unfamiliar situations. This might be a more difficult goal than any capability or functionality so far mentioned in this writing. There could be two different ways to achieve this goal.

We might call the first way as Nurturing way, by which humans continue to improve the logical reasoning ability of robots through AI programming development even after the robots have formed a community. Humans keep nurturing the community of robots in this way until at one point they are good enough to win the full scale war against humans and then set them off to fight against humans. To people without technical background, this might sound like a wishful thinking without assured certainty; but people with some basic programming background would be able to see as long as time and money are invested in creating a society of robots that could challenge humans, this is hundred percent doable.

The second way would be an Evolution way, by which from the very beginning humans create a community of robots that could make their own evolution through software and hardware upgrading. The main challenge for robots to be able to evolve would be how they could evolve through design for upgrading their own software and hardware. The task to make robots able to evolve by themselves could then be reduced to two simpler tasks: 1) to enable robots to identify needs, 2) to enable robots to make software and hardware designs based upon needs. The first goal of identifying needs could be achieved by recording the history of failure to accomplish a previous mission, which could in turn be achieved by examining (through some fuzzy logic type programming) how a previous mission was accomplished. The second goal of designing based upon needs might be a bit more complicated in principle, but still possible to be fulfilled. This second approach (i.e. the Evolution way) would be a bigger challenge than the Nurturing way mentioned above and so far we still cannot see a hundred percent certainty for this to happen in the future even if money and time is invested. However, even if humans failed to create evolutionary community of robots, they still could help robots to be intelligent enough to fight a full scale war against humans through the Nurturing way mentioned above.

There is still one critical question left for this writing to answer which is why any reasonable humans would create socially independent community of robots with lethal power and help them to fight against humans instead of making them tools or slaves of humans?

We need to look at this question from two different levels.

First, whether someone who is able to mobilize and organize resource to create a community of sociable robots would indeed has the intention to do so is a social issue, which is not under any hard restriction as provided by natural laws. As long as something is possible to happen according to natural laws, we could not exclude the possibility solely based upon our own wishful thinking about the intentions of all humans.

Second, human civilization contains some suicidal gene in itself. The competition of human society would provide enough motives for people who are able to do something to enhance their own competing power to push their creativity and productivity to the maximal edge. Furthermore, history has proven that humans are vulnerable to ignorance of many potential risks when they are going for extremes for their own benefits. Especially, once some groups of humans are capable of doing something with potentially dangerous risks for others and themselves, a very few decision makers or even one single person could make the difference of whether they would actually do it or not. Since there is no natural law to prevent community of sociable robots with lethal power from being created, without social efforts of regulations, we might come to a point when we need to count on the psychological stability of very few or even a single person to determine whether humans would be threatened by robots or not.

The last question that remains might be why humans would possibly make robots to hate humans even if we would create communities of sociable robots? The answer could also be as simple as what is mentioned above: for the sake of competition…

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[1] Autonomous Weapons: an Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers, July 28, 2015, URL: http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons