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Energy-hog plug by SDG&E
don bauder Are you insinuating that I am not forthcoming when it comes to paying my taxes?— June 24, 2015 1:33 p.m.
San Diego is no Charleston
don bauder cynical or jaded??— June 24, 2015 11:45 a.m.
Swiss secrecy bolsters soccer corruption
There is absolutely no chance that Boston will be awarded the 2024 Summer Olympics. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch.— June 24, 2015 11:44 a.m.
San Diego is no Charleston
I don't recall any large fire in Normal Heights in 1990. Could you possibly be referring to the 1985 fire? I remember it quite well. My wife and I were coming back from Arizona and we could see the smoke as we came thru the mountains, probably about 3pm. We had friends at the Padres game that day. Obviously, it could be seen from the Murph and they said people were cheering when the tankers started dropping fire retardant on the fire. It was a Sunday and as I recall, the fire started around 11 or 12 in the morning. I find it unlikely that fireworks were being shot off from the stadium at that time of day.— June 24, 2015 11:38 a.m.
San Diego is no Charleston
don bauder Apparently, they must have overlooked the Garden State Fireworks produced fiasco from 2 or 3 yrs ago.— June 24, 2015 8 a.m.
Padres manager accepts blame for team’s failings
Kinda hard to believe that there are still people who read Mencken's column and don't get that it is satire. It's almost as if they don't comprehend "SD on the QT: Almost Factual News" BTW, naming Pat Murphy as "interim" manage? Really?? Big mistake. Big. Huge. They've gone 2 and 5 since Buddie was given the heave ho, which will most likely be 2-8 after the series with the Giants.— June 23, 2015 2:36 p.m.
But what are we manufacturing?
don bauder The payroll survey encompasses 440,000 businesses while the household survey is a mere 60,000. The logical consequence is that the statistical error range in the payroll survey is much smaller than in the household survey, which is sometimes reflected by greater volatility in the household survey month-to-month results. That being said though, there are factors that could be distorting the results, such as seasonal adjustment, a respondents bias, or even actually measurement errors. As I said, with such a small sample base, is it truly a representative sampling?— June 22, 2015 11:24 a.m.
But what are we manufacturing?
The reason that the unemployment number seems "more realistic" the higher the number goes is each because U1 is the narrowest definition of unemployment and U6 is the broadest measure of unemployment. In the case of U6, it combines the discouraged workers and all other marginally attached workers combined in U4 and U5 then adds workers who are part-time purely for economic reasons, in other words, people who would like a full-time job but can only find part-time work or were working full-time and their employer cut hours rather than actually laying off employees. The U6 rate has historically been double or slightly less than double the “official” U3 rate. It is a more realistic number, when compared with the other rates. But consider this. Without going in to all the tedious details, the unemployment figures are derived from a survey. It’s called the Current Population Survey and basically is a survey of 60K eligible households. The households are divided into eight approximately equal groups. A group is interviewed for 4 consecutive months, temporarily leaves the sample for 8 months, and then returns for 4 more consecutive months. Every month, a group is being interviewed for the first time, one for the second time, and so on. So the U6 rate is probably the most representative of the available data sets. But when that data set is derived from only 60K of the approximately 70 million eligible households, is it truly a representative sampling?— June 21, 2015 10:01 a.m.
In San Diego versus Chargers, is next move up to Beutner?
Yeah, except Austin Beutner doesn't own the paper. He's the publisher. As publisher, he is free to put his own stamp on the paper. The paper is owned by Tribune Media and 51% of Tribune is owned by investment companies and corporate employees hold the remaining ownership interest.— June 21, 2015 9:31 a.m.
Energy-hog plug by SDG&E
don bauder addendum to above response. Besides, the IRS doesn't care where you live, as long as you abide by the tax laws.— June 19, 2015 2:37 p.m.