Bureaucratic appointments can't all be reversed easily by the next president. DeJoy, for example, the Postmaster General, can only be replaced by the USPS Board of Governors, which requires changing the board of governors first. This requires senate confirmation, a painfully slow process which is crawling along - Biden's two nominees to that postal governors board appeared before a Senate committee last month. I wonder if this FTC appointment will be as difficult for the next Republican president to undo.

I live in Washington, one of the states using "other mechanisms" to compensate for gas taxes not paid by electric car owners. The mechanism my state chose is a high fee for electric car registration. It's a flat amount based on the gas tax a commuter in a Toyota Prius would pay if they drove some average amount, which if I remember right is 11,000 miles/year. It's in that ballpark anyway.
For me, a retired guy who drives my Leaf about half that far per year, this means I'm paying double what I would pay if I were paying gas tax. Drivers of gas cars who drive very little pay less gas tax than those who drive a lot. If that's the principle we're operating under, so should I. But permission to use the road is actually costing me more than the electricity to run the car.
If they want to start metering the electric car fee based on actual mileage, they way they meter gasoline tax, I'll be happy to check in with an emissions test site annually so they can record my odometer. No problem.
OR, they could try replacing metered gas tax with a flat road use tax for ALL cars, not just electric ones. But I can predict how well that would go over.

If the MPA wins this, it seems like their argument to shut down a code repository because the code is used to commit crimes would also apply to gun and ammo factories.

It seems to me that the responsibility of companies like Facebook for illegal ads on their platforms should be the same as the responsibility of ISPs for illegal file sharing on their platforms. It's the same principle. If people use my service in illegal ways, am I responsible or not? And if so, to what extent? We've been over this ground before, extensively. It shouldn't be treated like unexplored territory just because we're talking about different content.

The more coupling there is between corporations and the federal agencies that are supposed to regulate them, the less you need a tinfoil hat to wonder if influential companies might use the FDA to obstruct research that could result in products that threaten their business. We live in an age of medical maintenance, not cures. How long has it been since the last eradication of a major disease? I have to wonder if we'll ever see cures for diseases such as diabetes that support multi-billion dollar maintenance industries.

That's true... people's voting habits are no more rational than their buying habits, probably because politicians are sold using the same techniques that sell hamburgers and deodorant. The goal of political campaigns, like other ad campaigns, isn't to help people make choices that reflect their free will or their best interests, it's to convince them that they're doing that, whether it's true or not. Voting doesn't reflect people's concerns or desires, it reflects the effectiveness of campaigning.

The reality of human nature appears not to support the theory that our choices will generally reflect what we want, or what we think we want. For the advertising industry this finding is a great big DUHHH!!! It wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar industry if convincing people to act against their own interests didn't work. But for the rest of us this seems to be a startling revelation.

When we discuss and argue about how to handle behavior-driven problems like rampant obesity, consumer debt, diabetes, and social media addiction, somebody always plays the free will card - "Nobody's putting a gun to their heads!" But is "free will" the part where we rationally think about what we want out of life and what's best for us, without any extraneous influences? Or is it the part where images and sound bites hit our insecurities and cravings, and we override our rationality and click a BUY button or chug down a 48-oz soda?

Our laws and customs are based on the assumption that our everyday decisions are based on free will. But how realistic is that? Really, truly, how much are we free-willed beings and how much are we profit-generating stimulus-response drones? Because calling the latter state Freedom doesn't make it a good thing. If our normal, natural behavior is to let ourselves be taken advantage of, it seems like we need to change our environment so it works better for us. How can we do that?

I agree that ISPs shouldn't act as copyright cops, judges and juries, but this one isn't threatening to mess with anybody's thermostat. They're just threatening to throttle bandwidth, which realistically could affect the operation of net-enabled devices if say a bit torrent client is hogging the connection.

I believe the design includes venting through the car if there is a large pressure difference between front and rear. So not only would the tube have to be breached, this would also have to fail.

Does this law mean a UK user could get thrown in jail for using an encryption scheme for which the government has no backdoor access?

How does anyone know that saving pink iguanas from a volcano is better than letting nature take its course?

Render city streets unnavigable? Where would the massive number of additional customers come from to support enough taxis to do that?

I think crowdfunding will eventually replace big entertainment companies, and the transition actually won't involve a huge change. The movie/television business has already evolved away from the monolithic studio business model of the past, which used to do entire productions. Since the late-1980s most movies and TV shows have been made by temporary assemblies of small, specialized production companies and services. The part the big studios still play is putting up the money, and thereby controlling the whole process. As crowdfunding generates more and more of the money, the big studios will have less and less control.