mweilgart

The happy part of this story (not mentioned in the text) is that the "remarkable power" wielded by the MPAA, having no legal enforcement, would go away if used for arbitrary censorship.

In other words, if the MPAA found itself firmly in agreement with the goals of arbitrary censorship, the result would be a gradual dying away of its power and a gradual rise of theater chains, television stations, etc., which would happily play movies having no MPAA rating or movies with an arbitrarily restrictive rating.

The ratings must remain useful to be used.

(On the other hand, the same meddlers who want to force the MPAA to rate movies restrictively for tobacco content, would undoubtedly lobby for MPAA ratings to be legally binding on movie theaters, and for unrated movies to be illegal to play publicly. And thus are First Amendment rights gradually eroded by "well meaning" idiots....)

You might find the xkcd fora thread on the subject good reading; despite the "religious wars" forum title, there are a number of well-reasoned arguments for both sides: http://fora.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=14943

If you are a sysadmin (which you clearly are not), there isn't much of a choice—vi is available on every server you will ever log in to, even in single user mode and even on embedded devices, whereas emacs generally is not.

For developers, the decision is more preference-based than spurred by necessity.

You mean something like this? GitLab just added the feature; it looks like what you're asking for.

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/#mr...

I've been using GitLab for almost a year and I love it. I tried BitBucket and found it confusing and counterintuitive—the UI is crowded, as is the UI for JIRA and Confluence. (Don't forget that GitLab replaces Bitbucket and JIRA and Confluence, and actually does even more than that.) https://about.gitlab.com/comparison/#gitlab-ceee-vs-bitbucke...