And now, for this weeks amusing moment…
Today the Personal Manager gave me the insurance card (life/accidents/whatever), who´s the provider?
Samsung
I kid you not, Samsung.
I´m wondering if I cut my hand off in a freak accident with a jar of mayonnaisse if I´ll be sent to a hospital or a repair shop. Hey, could be cool if I get a robotic arm or something… well, maybe not. :dubious:
Samsung?, life insurance? walks away scratching head
Hurray for convergence. 
It’s more than a buzzword, kids.
I got a giggle when I saw that the ceramic knife I’d been coveting was manufactured by Kyocera (which 'round these parts is usually best known for their cell phones).
Kyocera = Kyoto Ceramic. I always wondered what they were doing in the electronics business, myself. 
There are a number of Samsung escalators in the Toronto subway. And I believe Hyundai also does construction. The weird one for me is seeing Hitachi construction equipment. And what’s up with Yamaha? Musical electronics, sound systems… and motorcycles.
(Personnel manager?)
Why is Samsung life insurance weird? 
Is this one of those white people things?
I have a Kenwood mixer.
It’s not a ‘white person’ thing; it’s a ‘we don’t have the same kind of multi-armed conglomerates under the same brand name in North America’ thing.
Except for GE
http://www.ge.com/products_services/directory/by_product.html
health care, capital finance, gas turbines, NBC universal (big media dudes) , water processing and many many more.
Yeah, I was thinking about GE. But even a lot of their things are under different brand names, aren’t they?
I mean, there’s Rogers Cable, Rogers Publishing (the former Maclean-Hunter), Rogers Wireless, Rogers Telecom. But there is not Rogers Construction, Rogers Shipping, Rogers Finance, Rogers Aviation, and Rogers Computers. North American companies seem to keep the brand names of subsidiaries they buy.
Like NaturalBlondChap said, we aren’t used to multi armed conglomerates. It would be kind of like buying General Motors Brand cookies I suppose or perhaps buying a Starbucks blender.
I remember being surprised when I saw a Mitsubishi television because I was only used to seeing them as a car manufacturer.
You’re a toaster?
OMG, I gotta tell President Roslin! runs off
I used to work for Mitsubishi motors, and I was amazed at how many companys were fruit of the original one.
Tokyo Fire & Marine (Insurance company)
Mitsubishi Nuclear
Mitsubishi Bank
M. Elevator and Escalator (They do spiral escalators! Very cool)
etc.
Kyocera is also the parent company of AVX, one of the biggest manufacturers of ceramic capacitors (and other electronic components). Check out
http://global.kyocera.com/prdct/index.html
Mobile phones
Solar panels
Kitchen utensils
stationary
electronic components
chemicals
automotive components
printers
medical equipment
I once had a Panasonic engineer, visiting from Japan, tell me that along with all the consumer electronics, and the electronic components, they really do make the kitchen sink too.
Don’t they also make the “3 Diamond” brand food products, like canned tuna?
Just wait until Ted manages to replenish his piggy bank after his big spending spree a couple of years ago. Buying a stadium, a wireless provider AND a wireline/long distance provider tends to hit a guy’s pocketbook pretty hard.
Rogers Insurance isn’t that strange of a concept, considering that just 15 years ago, there wasn’t anything but Rogers Cable under the umbrella.
Exactly, when I saw the insurance card, not only with the name Samsung, but with the same frigging logo I´m used to see on phones, blenders, TVs, etc… I was quite surprised. I felt like I was being given a warranty instead of a life insurance.
And yes, it´s personnel manager, sorry. My personal manager (AKA GF) is an entirely different person. 
A long time ago, in a job far, far away, I was an engineer in the “Mask Shop” at a semiconductor company. I had a sales meeting with a representative of Toppan, a Japanese company that made the very-high-tech quartz plates we used. As a gift (something the Japanese have a bit of a fetish about), he gave me these rather cool double-walled ceramic tea cups. Turns out, it was a product they were developing…
So which policy did you get, the 720I or 1080P?
No idea, I´m more concerned about finding where is or who has the bloody remote. :eek:
Don’t forget Nestle-Ralston-Purina, makers of people chow and pet chow.
And the M134 Minigun.
