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Amazon Does It Again. Sears Up. Home Depot and Lowes Down
@Maurice- It will be a cold day in hell before I would ever obtain a device capable of listening to or "overhearing" every bit of conversation in it's immediate vicinity. The user has absolutely no way of knowing whether or not the device is secure, and with today's hacking capabilities as a default I'd have to assume that it isn't. Right out of Orwell.
Not too surprising catch. I venture to say that many appliances are not made by the manufacturer printed on the label. Made 'for' them yes, but not by them.
Since Ford is a major shareholder of Mazda, they used Marza 's small engines due to Ford's reliability issues with small displacement engines. Mazda 323 engine is still used today's Escort and few other compact cars. Today vast majority of foreign cars are assembled in US with foreign parts, except for few low volume and higher price point German cars. Some American cars are assembled in Mexico and has been that ways for years. The boundary between domestic and foreign cars (or other products including cell phones) does nor really exist anymore.
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http://www.appliance411.com/purchase/sears.shtml
http://www.reviewed.com/home-outdoors/features/ask-the-experts-is-it-worth-it-to-be-brand-loyal
Since Ford is a major shareholder of Mazda, they used Marza 's small engines due to Ford's reliability issues with small displacement engines. Mazda 323 engine is still used today's Escort and few other compact cars. Today vast majority of foreign cars are assembled in US with foreign parts, except for few low volume and higher price point German cars. Some American cars are assembled in Mexico and has been that ways for years. The boundary between domestic and foreign cars (or other products including cell phones) does nor really exist anymore.