"The only solution I see is if someone made a political website to educate the people..."

Here comes another solution: let's have a government duty, like that for jury, and at the very least you won't promote psycopaths into power.

"many of the automakers would like to get rid of the old outdated dealership model but can't because they are already entrenched."

Are you sure? Dealership may be mandatory in USA but, AFAIK that's not the case in Europe but, still, automakers go with the dealership model here also.

"If direct sell is the only available option then the customer gets screwed. The company sets the price and acts in indirect collusion with other companies"

How the retailer system avoids this? After all, retail price can't be but the company-set price plus the retailer margin.

"Independent GM/Ford/Toyota/whatever dealers don't want to compete with direct manufacturing sales. And they should not have to."

Maybe my naivety comes from not being American but... why not?

And providing they in fact shouldn't compete with direct sales, what's the benefit for the customer about having dealers instead of direct sales?

"All consecration is standalone? or where does it originate from?"

Sorry, my English seems not to be good enough, as I can't understand what you mean.

"As for the eternal value of the consecration, it's likely that some baptized guy does not receive salvation"

So what? I was answering about how someone becomes Catholic. Being Catholic is a necessary condition for salvation within their rules, but not sufficient condition.

"You're relying on a bad translation, the Hebrew text has "thou shalt not murder"."

Those quotes imply your cite is literal.

Good to know I can understand Hebrew... or else, your quote is not the literal Hebrew, right?

"Baptism, "the way to enter the club"? I guess it was J. "I am the way" Christ."

Well, you are wrong, then.

"Baptism is more like the club's bumper sticker."

No, it isn't.

In the Catholic dogma, sacraments are so called "effective": they do exactly what they say -they are not just a sign of what happens but the way to make the thing to happen or the thing happening itself.

And then, baptism is considered one of the three sacraments with "character", which means they imprint on the soul an indelible sign: you forcibly need to be baptised to become Christian, being no other way to become Christian, and once that you get baptised you can't be "debaptised": you'll be forever a Christian even in case of apostasy -you rebel of what you are but you can't stop being what you are.

I said a dick, not necessarily the way to be a dick, which depends on the situation.

But then, yes, it's a must to tell *all* those bastards that think that looking at 22 guys on short parts running after a ball merits fighting each other to go eat their shit elsewhere and then, in this case, to all the Celtic fans that they should be much less than proud to allow that kind of behaviour under their ranks if or as long they haven't show their heaviest rejection to these kind of violent acts.

Which is exactly which I did few weeks ago when basically the same happened in the preceeding hours to an Atletico de Madrid match.

"Please continue to show your ignorance. A "backup" has many definitions especially those used for maintenance."

It might be the general case but certainly it is not the current one, CTO stating that the backup was used to cover for the mains failure -and failing at that, so it is not a "maintenance-only" setup.

"Anyway I'm out. This conversation is going nowhere. I suggest you maybe enrol in a project management"

That's true. You just stay saying the same stupid things, babbling out some disconected concepts you probably read about in wikipedia, despite of *you* being the one implying things you don't have a damn clue about.

"Youngsters don't take up arms and blow themselves up because they're impressionable."

Yes. They most certainly do.

"Still doesn't make it OK to be a dick."

When somebody else gets killed because of his right to speech like a dick then, yes, it becomes OK and even necessary to be a dick.

"What's right and wrong is not always clear cut."

Yes, there's a shadow of grey both sides of the frontier. Killing somebody because of what he said is as far from the frontier as Lebanon, KS, though.

"They say right in the article "Given enough hands" well that's the entire point of the game! You don't give the opponent enough hands to win."

So you just played once, but still playing once was enough to master the game, you won by chance and then you don't return to the game never again?

Correction: you _may_ not give AN opponent enough hands to win, but of course you return to the game. That's what pros do, after all: they win sometimes and lose sometimes, it's only they tend to win more than lose. That's exactly the claim: that the bot not only will win more times than not, but that there's no better player in the long run than the bot.

"What happens if someone else creates an identicly perfect robotic player and joins the table?"

Not that I know so much about Texas Hold'em but, by the look of the text, "...Given enough hands, it will never, ever lose, regardless of what its opponent does or which cards it is dealt." these researchers have discovered the equivalent of a Nash equilibrium in the game.

"If these two robots played each other wouldn't the winner be determined by pure luck?"

Key words here are "given enough hands". This means that given enough hands, they would tie.

"Most Christians don't believe that. They believe that Christianity is defined by faith, and faith alone."

_sola fide_ is about God's pardon, not Christianity belonging. That's accrued by baptism.