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"Linksys (...) devices are made by Sercomm, meaning that Cisco, Watchguard, Belkin (...)"

It reminds me that scary graph where half a dozen companies control almost all the stuff you see on supermarket shelves. I remember reading nice fairy tales in school about open markets, and fair and diverse competition being paramount to the western economic model...

Sorta like these conglomerates? Just to name a few :)

• ConAgra
• Kraft
• Nestle
• Proctor&Gamble
• Diageo

Hell, if you decided to boycott Proctor & Gamble, you'd probably never be able to buy a single thing for the rest of your life.

Well, yeah, some people don't finish to understand the massive size of conglomerates like P&G, Unilever, 3M, etc. I always think of 3M as the best example for a boycott.

After reading a little bit, and I perhaps didn't read right, NBC is part of GE and not the other way around.

Your nightmare already exists. it's called Proctor and Gamble: http://www.pg.com/en_US/brands/index.shtml/

they want "a color, head-and-shoulders photograph."

...Unless, that is, they get your company name wrong! It's Procter & Gamble (not Proctor & Gamble). TFA gets it wrong as well, but that's probably why the company has mostly been using just P&G lately. Not that it matters much; we've apparently degenerated into a society that doesn't value spelling anyway.

In the year 10BI (before Internet) there were more government-registered patent agents and examiners in Cincinnati
than the combined bottom half of the 50 states.

The "new and improved" list of new monthly patents should read:
1. ALWAYS
2. BOUNCE
3. CHEER
4. DAWN
5. ERA
6. GAIN
7. DOWNY
8. GLEEM
9. IVORY

Unless you were looking for this P&G list.

Not really an 'IE' only site, but at least its currently a 'non-Firefox' site, is Proctor & Gamble.

When I try to access it using Firefox 1.0.7, it tells me to upgrade my browser and provides image button links to Microsoft and Netscape to do so. And as far as I can tell, without changing my client ID info, I can't get to the site using Firefox, in other words, it doesn't give me the option of going there anyway.

"Eat our chips, they're not greasy like those other guys," "Our laundry detergent works better than the leading brand!" and "why shop at those other guys?"

I believe that advertisements avoid naming the competition because:

1. Mentioning the competition, even in a bad light, might reinforce their brand.
2. The parent company may also be the parent of the "leading brand". (See Proctor and Gamble for an example.)

One thing I recommend to ANYONE who is taking on an internship: LEARN THE NAME OF THE COMPANY THAT IS NICE ENOUGH TO HIRE YOU!

It's Procter & Gamble, dolt.

I don't think so. Look at the P&G product list, for example. They have many registered trademarks that are also common words.

'Procter & Gamble has answered more than 150,000 calls and letters about these false stories... Calls and letters peaked in 1982, 1985 and again in 1990... Procter & Gamble, which had worldwide sales of $19 billion last year, is still getting as many as 80 calls a month about the rumors. The high was as many as 15,000 a month, when Procter & Gamble had to add staffers to handle the deluge of calls on a nationwide toll-free consumers' line...' (full story)

A.G. Lafley, president and CEO of Proctor and Gamble, complained strongly about the US Government's recent decision to add Pringles to the list of munitions subject to export control laws.

"I mean, come on", Lafley complained at the company's recent AGM. "We were just starting to gain market share in the highly covetted 15-25 year-old male, Arab, electronic terrorist demographic. And now this? It's so un-American! My question to George Bush is: Where's your head at?"

In a related mater, Lafley again denied that he supports Satanism.

Scare tactis here much? And that's directly from the article, quoted in context by the submitter.

corrosive hydrogen fluoride

Yeah, that's nice, but you're almost guaranteed that you need to use a strong base (sodium hydroxide) or a strong acid (hydrogen fluoride, hydrocloric acid, etc.) in any manufacturing process, if for nothing else than cleaning. Arsine gas is frquently produced in the process of creating flux, a cleaning agent, which is necessary for soldering. Pretty much any device with a circuit board (TV, microwave, remote control) is going to require solder and therefore involve the same agents.

For further perspective, look at the ingredients of your shampoo or conditioner some time, and you're likely to see HCL, NaOH, as one of the last few ingredients. If not, you're almost certain to see sodium chloride, the result of titrating with one or the other. Doesn't make them much more dangerous.

Scare tactis here much? And that's directly from the article, quoted in context by the submitter.

corrosive hydrogen fluoride

Yeah, that's nice, but you're almost guaranteed that you need to use a strong base (sodium hydroxide) or a strong acid (hydrogen fluoride, hydrocloric acid, etc.) in any manufacturing process, if for nothing else than cleaning. Arsine gas is frquently produced in the process of creating flux, a cleaning agent, which is necessary for soldering. Pretty much any device with a circuit board (TV, microwave, remote control) is going to require solder and therefore involve the same agents.

For further perspective, look at the ingredients of your shampoo or conditioner some time, and you're likely to see HCL, NaOH, as one of the last few ingredients. If not, you're almost certain to see sodium chloride, the result of titrating with one or the other. Doesn't make them much more dangerous.

Obviously part of the sponsorship includes ads on TV, but it also includes changing one of the show titles from "Cheat" to "Cheat Pringles Gamers Guide", and changing the actual set of the show to include Pringles "stuff". The show home page [g4tv.com] on our web site (for this show) is also part of it.

You get exposure even if you fast forward the commercials.

Obviously part of the sponsorship includes ads on TV, but it also includes changing one of the show titles from "Cheat" to "Cheat Pringles Gamers Guide", and changing the actual set of the show to include Pringles "stuff". The show home page on our web site (for this show) is also part of it.

You get exposure even if you fast forward the commercials.