And it is people like you who claimed that nokia's old symbian phones were "superior to iphone on all levels".

That didn't end well either. Better luck this time.

In other words, it's managed by a user.

Adblock's lists are managed by adblock automatically with zero input from the user.

The difference is monumental, and your refusal to understand it is hilarious.

Not complexity in computational terms, but complexity in terms of end user action needed.

10 year sentence is about as long effective in terms of prevention as life according to most criminologists. From preventative point of view, as long as you can do an evaluation to keep those few that still pose a threat in prison, the rest should be released.

Vengeance based system views that such risks and assessments are irrelevant, as the goal is not to rehabilitate but to punish.

So when you donate money to charity through a middleman and he takes a sizeable portion of your money, it's ok?

Where do you draw the line? How much can he take? Can he not tell you that he's taking a portion of the money for himself? In some countries that is actually illegal to do.

And assembler does far more than C when done right too.

My point, which you keep walking past is that messing around with hosts file is significantly more complex than just using adblock if all you need is ad blocking functionality in your browser. It's like writing software that can be comfortably written in C in assembler instead.

Well, for starters you won't go to jail for 25 years for that other than in puritanist backwater countries like US and maybe UK.

Nope, it's coded in higher level language used by plebs unlike assembler that does it all better and more efficiently. But you plebs want to make things comfortable and easy instead of powerful and hard. Like ones that use adblock instead of maintaining hosts files, or using higher level programming languages instead of assembler code.

They have specifically stated that these things won't even be exclusive - all ships will be attainable through in-game means. You may get a unique skin at best.

Two problems:

1. People who want to buy the limited packages could have been giving the money to the devs to fund the game. Which is the entire point of the whole "selling ships before game is even out" thing.
2. Obfuscation: by not allowing discussion of some of the practices and fine points, such as price differential for early backers, newcomers may actually end up getting screwed. They think they're backing the dev, when in fact they're lining profiteers' pockets.

No, that's just frontier justice countries like US that base their justice system on concept of vengeance rather than concept of rehabilitation.

People who present danger to society will continue to be incarcerated in those countries, such as Breivik (who didn't murder people in malls by the way). However these are exceptions to the rule. Most people convicted to life in prison present no threat after serving several tens of years.

How could it not? What other justification do you have besides "vengeance" if he has reformed himself?

Reminder: civilization is about rising above animalistic instincts. Succumbing to petty vengeance isn't civilized - it's barbaric.

Actually it's factually correct, because life sentence does mean the thing I describe.

What you are describing is an exception made to those who are deemed to be still dangerous after having served their time. That has nothing to do with life sentence and can be applied to those serving shorter time as well.

I'm not sure. I've read the bible, and the god as old testament describes it is not really someone I could in any way shape or form relate to Jesus' teachings for example.

It's all about which part of the bible you focus on as the "right one". Same goes for most other major religions such as islam, buddhism, hinduism and so on.