Re: OT: Play regular MPEG on a DVD Player?

On Nov 22, 1:54 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:16:55 -0800, "Joel Koltner"

<zapwireDASHgro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Sure, but the number of sole propreitors or even two-person partnerships in
this country is probably... <1% of all workers?  Getting that up to, say, 10%
in the next decade strikes me as very difficult with our current culture..

---Joel

I can't argue the numbers, because I don't know, but why is it the
politicians keep saying that "small businesses" provide most of the
jobs?

Because it is true.

Although you might be more than a bit surprised how big a "small"
enterprise can be.

One I worked for a long time ago in the UK managed to grow by spinning
off new companies as logical franchises to each stay inside the legal
parameters of a "small" company so as to qualify for maximum tax
benefit and grants. I think the numbers then were something like under
100 people and £10M turnover but those old limits have changed.
Various national SME business definitions are summarised online at:
http://www.lib.strath.ac.uk/busweb/guides/smedefine.htm

The US definition of a small business is particularly opaque and
worthy of Brussels bureaucrats. Every US industry code has its own
definition of "small" and they vary considerably!
http://www.sba.gov/services/contractingopportunities/sizestandardstopics/tableofsize/index.html

The US Small Business Administration bureaucracy looks particularly
Kafkaesque to me. YMMV

The EEC also defines a micro-enterprise with <10 people employed and
turnover < €2 million.
Many of these either grow into something bigger or go bust at least in
the hitech business.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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