I don’t think any of the current BMWs have spares. I have a 335xi on lease right now which came with run-flats and didn’t come with a spare. You can option it without run-flats, but I’m not sure if this adds a spare. If memory serves, even on the non-electric models, the battery terminals are in the trunk? I haven’t…

Holy shit.

Dear VW: Please do this on the Golf R.

I was a summer intern at a boutique family law firm before it was sucked up into a much larger regional firm a month or two after I passed the bar and I moved uptown, but when I was interviewing at the small firm I noted that the 79 year old owner had a computer on his desk. I thought “Wow! I’m impressed that a guy…

The more important question: what can Google do to move the rudder on the enormous ship that is the legal world, which wishes to do nothing more than what it does already, forever? Merely hitting feature parity, especially after having to jump through hoops of third party programs, is far from a compelling reason to…

Unclear. Much of the ethical codes are focused on willful breaches of the attorney-client privilege, i.e. choosing to dump files in a potentially unsecured cloud server. I cannot imagine that an attorney would be censured for automatic behavior of a piece of software, but I would not be surprised to see the state bar…

Not only is it pretty much a legal-only creature, it’s even more nuanced than that. I’ve never seen a ToA required outside of appellate litigation briefs. I can imagine that the feature is needed by a small subset of users, but those users really appreciate it. That makes it hard for Google to see a strong value…

This feels like a pretty tone-deaf take based only on the author’s personal experience.

There are more than a few state court decisions which found ethical violations on the part of attorneys who store client privileged documentation on cloud services over which they don’t have direct control. OP seems prudent and reasonable and doesn’t want to get a bar complaint.

Beyonce heavy in iTunes makes sense, right? Since he’s not scrobbling on Spotify, it’s only scrobbling local things, and Lemonade isn’t on Spotify? Same with the Beatles, until relatively recently.

In the borderline impossible case where this ends up in court, I think that United has a pretty decent public policy argument that it’s in far more peoples’ best interest that all the other flights aren’t late and are fully crewed, versus the consideration in delaying one individual passenger. That’s oftentimes enough…

It’s undoubtedly an adhesion contract, but I don’t believe this is the type of term they’d write out. They’ve held up a lot more intense terms in similar conveyance contracts (arbitration agreements, forum selection clauses, etc.) and the actual terminology at issue here seems much more innocuous. The cops beating the…

While I’m not an expert on airline policies, I believe that this is exactly how it works. I’m sure that if we sat down and read their policies, it’d be in there. Their interest is getting their employees to the next location, as they lose a lot more in having to pay overtime if their employees have a full day of being…

Fronk pls

I think that for older kids it’d be fine, but I’m not sure how well it would handle two car seats. It did pretty ok on Cars.com’s test:

I love love love Paprika.

What factory sanctioned tunes exist? My understanding was that if you screw with the tune at all, VAG will notice if you bring your car into the dealer and it’ll take a dump on your warranty.

It’s interesting that this requirement would be the only thing in this thread that’s likely to be found unconstitutional.

This is one of those things that sounds great, but actually isn’t. So much of what our government does is based entirely out of not the actual passages of the Constitution, but the specific ways the Supreme Court has expanded the powers each branch may wield. So few tasks would actually be a simple: “it’s in Article…

What do you feel about what took place is unconstitutional? I think it sucks and it’s poor public policy, but until ISPs are made public utilities, nothing about this story strikes me as violating the Constitution.