In the case of Beta Carotene, your body only converts as much as it needs to Vitamin A and the rest passes through. For the B Vitamins, you can take way over daily doses before you would even be close to overdose amounts. Again, your body is good at passing through excess (hence the bright yellow pee from…

I decided to use google to figure out exactly why everything was covered in plastic (it's so they can grow all year) and this place is sort of fascinating. This area used to be arid, dusty, and dry. The plants under that plastic are either sitting in imported soil or never touching soil at all. It's basically a gold…

Quote from the bible.

And some mail clients treat images in the signature as attachments, which can vary from unprofessional looking to mildly frustrating to the recipient.

Ouch. Yeah I have much better coverage.

I don't Smart home is selling anywhere near well enough to keep Radio Shack afloat. It's still a niche more or less. The smartest thing they did (which actually kept them alive for probably another half decade or longer) was to carry smartphones.

Roughly 70% of Americans live in states that collect sales tax from Amazon.

I don't know about you, but I have a TON of UPS stores in my city. One a mile down the road from my house. One 3 blocks from my work. And once you create a UPS.com account, you can have any package that's not Surepost (the cheapest option) routed to any UPS store for free. I have almost everything I order sent to the…

I don't think Sprint would be doing themselves any favors buying all those stores. Actually, I think if Sprint buys half those stores, like the rumor is they are trying to do, they effectively signed their death certificate.

They have been closing stores, "restructuring", and getting cash injections for years now. Smartphone sales also extended their life by a few years. Basically they kicked the can down the road and grabbed on to anything in site to keep from going under. Their luck ran out.

Could also be for pick up and drop off. Amazon probably pays a ton in return shipping costs. In a place like Manhattan or SF, the population might be dense enough where a drop off center makes sense. If they had a collection location and grouped things before sending them back, they could cut costs. Obviously it'd…

"Best" is short for best regards or best wishes and seems to be really common in the business world. The more I started doing informationals with business folks, the more I realized that everybody uses it.

The devices are so different from batteries that they kind of explode

Then you clearly have never worked in the service industry. Consumers have become so entitled that service industry workers just stop giving a shit. You wouldn't imagine the difference in effort you will get from those "dumb" workers with "no skills" when you are courteous and put yourself in their shoes. The…

Assembly? No problems. Even some of the bigger things I could probably figure out without the manual. Usage? Their cheaper stuff is just waiting to break.

As somebody mentioned, it offers a second purpose of preventing you from hosting a website or media server in your home.

Comcast could just be saving face. What's a single customers bills waived when she is claiming to be financially strained and was mistreated? Even if it's not true, you aren't going to call her out. You are going to go into damage control mode.

I almost bit that troll.

But that doesn't give her permission to be rude. Those reps are following the rules. They have jobs to keep. Put yourself in their shoes for a minute. I'm sure they hate the high stress pressure situations too.

I'm not excusing the reps behavior. It was way out of line. I'm just saying there are usually two sides to a story.