A Woman Owned Business

Neato... you saw the satire. :)

D from BC British Columbia Canada.

Hole? Nope.. Learning.... From what I've read here, sounds like there's a gender/culture tweeking of the business exchange between US government business and 'off the bell curve' US small business owners..

Reminds me that 'antitrust law'. Is there a connection? However, I'm not familiar with that either. :P

D from BC British Columbia Canada.

Sometimes small business, woman owned, minority owned, etc are given preferential contracting treatment.

Yup...that's what others have been posting. I didn't know that happened.

Well...this 'small, man-owned business'* would like to get some cores from the 'small, woman-owned business'.. :P

D from BC British Columbia Canada.

"Joel Koltner"

I always believed they out-numbered men in the population.

Cos they mostly outlive us.

....... Phil

=A0 ...Jim Thompson

wned

Actually, it was D from BC who had the problem with English - going to the web-site he posted makes it clear that it is a small business owned by a woman, entitled to preferrential treatment on both counts. Jim was too lazy to check the link.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Obviously these folks are not lobbying hard enough:-

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Bet he doesn't understand that, either...

On some government contracts it is to your advantage to use small or minority owned businesses.

Only if your run them into saturation at audio frequencies.

I give up. What does it mean? Your Canadian *what*? Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

'your' means my blood pressure was high, my vision was blurry, and I used the spell checker because I couldn't see very well. Losing your vision is no fun. Any more questions?

Funny, whenever I make that kind of mistake it has more to do with my brain than my vision. I think USENET conversations must use the part of the brain that is normally used for vocal conversations rather than regular writing... Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Women aren't minorities, but woman-owned businesses are. Sorry for being a little sloppy on the nomenclature there...

Ahhh..... It's crystal clear now. :) Thanks... Quoted from

SDB = Small Disadvantaged Business Gee...that sounds worse than '**Small, woman-owned Business'. :P

Small Disadvantaged Business???

"Hi! I'm a small disadvantaged business.. Would you like to buy my toroids.."

I don't think Bill Gates or Steve Jobs thought like that in the beginning.. 'I run a small disadvantaged business in my garage.' It was like this: 'I run a small business that will soon make megabucks!'

D from BC British Columbia Canada.

Some years ago, some company was advertising that they were a "large woman owed business".

I think this comes from the US government trying to buy from minority companies in the 80s, thus, if you advertise your minority status, you will get gov. business.

I have days that i can barely see, and don't dare drive. that was one of them. I make mistakes typing by feel, and some aren't caught, or are made worse by the spell checker.