[Dottore]

I was once in a factory in Taiwan that made 6 or 7 different brands of televisions depending on the orders they received: Panasonic, Hitachi, Pioneer etc and several European brands. Just a different box. Everything else was identical.

That is Globalization for you. All the same crap.

Bought a KitchenAid blender the other day. The salesman made a big point of telling me it was the best one in the store because it was the only one still "proudly assembled" in America - in Michigan. All the parts come from Mexico, China and India - but they're slapped together in Michigan. That made the thing better.

It's enough to make a grown man weep.