Besides this, the NYC rule seems to cover rental agreements, which the FTC rule did not cover, to my knowledge.

Indeed, but I was answering the question: "It seems like there is an obvious business opportunity for a domestic tractor manufacturer here. Anyone care to explain why nobody has moved into this market?"
European tractors would not be a domestic manufacturer. A domestic company moving into the market would be a "new manufacturer" and would have to invest quite a bit into development - design, manufacturing, etc...
It's easier for other companies, whether Chinese, Japanese, or European to move in instead with their own superior offerings.

RFS is dead. Like his wife.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

What could possibly go wrong?

Apple is becoming more MS every day.

That would be that labor costs are too high, they wouldn't be able to compete with the established players as a new manufacturer that would have a bunch of development costs for what would, at least at the start, be more primitive offerings.
Of course, primitive is what some people are after.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have taken over on much of the innovation, or at least development. The USA and Europe have too much invested in the status quo these days.

I'm on my third set of LUENX sunglasses. When I inevitably lose this pair (the fate of all my sunglasses), I'll probably buy another. I want purple shiny polarized glasses, they sell those. The say LUENX on the sides. The microfiber cloth that comes with them says LUENX. The little test card for polarization says LUENX (you can only read it through polarized lenses, of course).

So how are these a sketchy brand, or a knockoff, or whatever? These things work fine, arrive at my door the next day, and are like 15 bucks. Am I to believe that these are somehow a bad buy for 15 bucks? Am I to be enraged that I could probably get them for 9 dollars if I went directly to their website, or to alibaba or something?

Anyone have a suggestion for a nice pair of shiny purple polarized sunglasses- ones that aren't Luxotica (aka EssilorLuxottica these days)?

"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time"

Its called fingerprinting, and it has been going on a very long time, using techniques that go back decades. This just makes it more persistent and spans attempts to obfuscate fingerprinting in easier ways.

If you want to avoid this, work from a non-persistent VM that is created and destroyed every online session, using no identifiable information (no-logins ever).

Security isn't convenient.

I attribute it down to mostly the elimination of leaded gasoline. 18-20 years after use drops, crime drops as well.

Can they factor a number larger than 21 with QC yet?

There was actually an incident of this some years ago. A pensioner (not the USA, UK, or similar) was declared dead by mistake. So they stopped his payments, went to take his housing away, etc...
He ended up being the most polite thief, just for life necessities.
They eventually tried to arrest him. Except the computer wouldn't accept the entry because dead. Fingerprints were for a dead man.
Couldn't hold a normal court case because dead.
It took like a year to fix, and they decided to drop the charges and stuff because he paid the businesses back when they finally gave him the back money owed.

Autocorrupt: some to somehow

If the aftermarket fob is a cheaper build, one needs to look for a better quality kit. Never had a problem with my fobs.
And yes, the replacement fob did everything.

With lead-acid and extended run times, volume starts mattering again. Especially if one is trying to retrofit cell towers that might not have had significant UPS capability before.

In addition, the lead-acid batteries in this use can last for a long time, and perhaps more importantly, the UPS equipment is set up for lead-acid. It's cheaper to replace the lead-acid batteries than it is to switch to a newer chemistry, even if LFP is getting down to lead-acid prices per kWh.

For a NEW install, I'd very much look at newer chemistries. Though NMC would be low on the consideration list. As you said, need durability not low mass/volume, and lower cost is always good.

I had an aftermarket remote starter in my truck, professionally installed, no problems with it for a decade.
They did hook it up, it replaced my original remote, so I didn't have to carry both.