What about winter when the car is at -20C and the bottom is all ice? You would need to wash the entire car top and bottom to melt it off. Then dry it thoroughly so you can go back out in -20C. Then swap the battery out. A major operation.

Your employer should align teams with geography. There should be minimal day to day interaction with sites so remote.

The trouble is half your staff won’t show up period without a mandate. You get near zero levels of in person meetings because teams simply don’t meet.

Management of our dev and test teams put on a 2 day/week mandate in Jan after 6 months of trying to coax them in organically. At the peak they got 50% coming in 1 or 2 days a week but about 1/4 had not worked a day in the office since March 2020! No doubt they planned to keep that up indefinitely.

Many Canadians use VPNs to bypass geofencing on U.S. sites.

So what. Doubling the assembly costs would mean little to the final selling price.

iPhone 6 Bill of Materials.
http://www.techinsights.com/teardown.com/apple-iphone-6/

Get a grip.

Foxconn Denies Report of Unrest at iPhone Factory
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/business/foxconn-denies-report-of-unrest-at-iphone-factory.html?partner=yahoofinance&_r=0

Microsoft in 1999 was worth $850B in today's dollars. Apple has a ways to go to have the highest market cap ever.

Sure, but all this means is that we effectively establish a range where shale gas and oil are viable. Say for arguements sake that is the equivalent of $80-$120 USD/barrel. Unless alternative energy can meet the lower end of that range, factoring in all costs (meeting peak load, base load, etc. dealing with power storage), then fossil fuels win. As costs go up, alternative sources are more viable but so is wildcatting and new technology to extract new shale deposits. You get a boom of drilling, then prices drop back down. The whole idea of peak oil forcing change goes out the window in this scenario. Or at least gets delayed a few decades.

I think you don't want to believe. The reality is that unless the anti-fracking lobby limits it's production, natural gas from shale deposits will be very abundant for a very long time. Not only that, shale oil deposits are massive as well. Likely big enough to push Peak Oil out a few decades in North America.

Shale of the century
The “golden age of gas” could be cleaner than greens think
http://www.economist.com/node/21556242

Except that the reason it is cheap is because of shale gas. Of which there is at least a 100 year supply. It is just not going to run out for decades, even with massive increases in usage.

In the farming community I grew up on 40 years ago, it was relatively common for some natural gas to come up with the tap water in some wells. South Western Ontario, Canada. No fracking back in those days.

Not really working the way you think it is.

The proximate cause for the demise of C-30 is not opposition or privacy commissioner complaints. C-30 died because there is a reasonably large subgroup of the Conservative party base which has Libertarian sentiments and opposes the invasion of privacy potential of C-30. If there was no strong opposition from their base, then C-30 would go through, just like C-11 is.

John Ibbitson: Why Stephen Harper always listens to his base
"According the Globe's Ottawa Bureau chief, the Prime Minister's mind is often swayed by the rumblings of the Tory base. And in the case if Bill C30, their displeasure means the legislation will never see the light of day."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/video-john-ibbitson-why-stephen-harper-always-listens-to-his-base/article2434452/

Was the outcome altered though? Proof please? You assume it was, you don't know it was.

There certainly should be a criminal investigation and if any laws were broken, those responsible should be held to account. Unless there is proof that the leadership of the Conservatives directed this action, that is the end of the matter. If there is no such proof, you are not going to get a new general election out of this. No way.