For only about as much as you'd pay in a car payment, you can have the speed other countries get for about the price of a cup of coffee a day.

It took working with the self driving car to finally get to the realm of AI. AI in essence is one part complicated sensors, and one part video game AI. If you can know where stuff is in your environment, then the other part is just acting on that stuff with your current robot's body/abilities. AI is way simpler than anyone thought it was back in the days of Tron or simulating animal brains. All you need is the ability to know and map your environment then act on it. Everything in between like natural language kinda is coded along side it. I have a webpage www.botcraft.biz which really simplifies stuff. Now don't get me wrong, some of the software that is needed to be coded is big and complex, but none of it is out of the realm of human understanding. If a corporation really wanted AI,they could have it in 7 years or so, but most corporations don't look that far out. I think the race to make a self driving car will naturally lead into AI. And what is funny is that you could have robot delivery service for lawn care, parties, law enforcement backup, etc, because they could use the self driving car to get to the locations.

I'd go so far as to predict the self driving car will turn into AI because I posted it on another forum, but I post so much on forums, its hard to back track and point at references.

Everyone deserves sympathy because they're people. Everyone matters.

I'll tell a story about helping people related to Katrina. There were two types of people who went down to help. One person jumped in their car and came down immediately and said,"What can I do to help." The other person loaded their car with bottled water, chainsaws, gasoline and canned food then came down. The person who came loaded used their own supplies and just started chainsawing trees in the road. If they saw someone who could use help, they donated supplies. They helped. The other person used the local gasoline jacking the prices higher, and used supplies needed for the people. The unprepared helper was a net negative to helping out. The lesson in this is that helping others is a lifetime job. We educate ourselves always, work a moral job, live a frugal life so we can help others maximally. If we simply gave away all our money and capital all at once, we become part of the problem.

*Not to say the defenders of the Alamo aren't heroes. I just meant people want to know victory is possible.

This is just my thoughts(I could be wrong), but I think if you want more money for disaster relief: Document the change your nonprofit did. Show videos of before and after of housing built. Show happy faces getting food. Talk about how many people your doctors helped.

People who donate like two things. #1 They like to see you have a track record so their money will be used for good. #2 They like to meditate, dwell, and think about your charity daily if it is a positive attitude instead of a defeatist attitude.

Play up donators as people who are heroes, rather than defenders of the Alamo.

There needs to be a paper trail a person verifies. Voting machines are abused everywhere.

Right now you could have the choice between a 20,000$ electric vehicle or a 11,000$ gas vehicle. Lets say the gas vehicle gets 33 mpg, and gasoline costs 3$. Then for 9,000$, you get 3000 gallons of gasoline, and at 33mpg, you get nearly 100,000 miles of free fuel. The price point where electric vehicles start to even make sense for an economical sense is somewhere around $15,000.

This is a nice visualization. If I was young and aimless, I might see some value in learning new techs I don't actually need right now. Learning new techs could help you land jobs in today's age of clueless HR people judging you by your tech list vs your ability.

However, I'm getting older and I learn another tech only if I actually need to use it for something I'm working on. So I'll be happily deficient in lots of languages I don't need. I'm certain I could be at least of average skill after about two weeks of most languages as that is my past experience with new languages. But don't tell HR. Today's software engineering world is so averse to training people it rarely considers searching for a veteran software engineer and letting him come up to speed on random techs.

If I spent a couple weeks on every tech I hear about for the sake of toying with it, I'd never get anything done.

I understand all that. What got me is that I thought I was clicking on the top search result for an official site, but it was an advertisement. I simply couldn't tell the top search result from the advertisements. Bing didn't do enough to categorize it as an ad. I think they want you to misclick ads thinking they're legit sites to gain more money.

I was planning on writing something about the indie game scene, but changed it to something more relevant to Steve's experience. If I could rewrite the title, I'd say,"How do you publish a P&P RPG system?"

If I have an old school RPG system that is a good system, and has several adventures, what is the best way to publish it? I play tested it through several years in highschool, and its a very fun system, but I have no idea how to publish an old school pencil and paper and make even a single literal dime.

The top results in Bing are typically ads which can sometimes link to a virus just by clicking on them. Microsoft has to know the ads link to a virus, but leave them up there because they're getting ad money coming in.

I'm perfectly fine with Google linking their own products and services. The only qualm I have with Google is how much they try and force you into Google+ everywhere you turn.

Rarely do people do fact checking. Propaganda is really easy to push on social media if you know how to do it right, causing people to stand up for causes, buy products or to make someone public enemy #1. This is the downside of popular opinion social media sites, if its wrong, yet a popular opinion, everyone gets a wrong popular opinion. Fortunately not all astroturfers understand how to pull on heart strings yet.

It's like acid rain on your wedding day.

Facts you probably didn't know: Lucky Charms has been marketed as a health food in the past. They said paraphrased,"Science has shown a link between oats and a healthy heart. Lucky Charms has oat pieces. So Lucky Charms should be healthy for your heart because of science."