I think it's an ugly looking thing but surprisingly comfortable, had mine for ~5 years, it has a bit of play where the stem fits in the base that I keep meaning to shim out with some aluminium can but have never got around to.
Sure, but only after telling you who Joe Bloggs is, because that's what you asked, you didn't ask 'Have I met Joe Bloggs?', an assistant (human or virtual) that doesn't actually help isn't going to keep their job for long.
Amazon is handling the warehousing and shipping for a lot of this stuff, they could xray the shipping box as it goes out, in the event of a dispute, it would be pretty easy to check the scan to see if they shipped electronics or clay.
My Version 6 (OS X 10.8), Safari is rejected as well, I should be using 'Chrome, Firefox, or Safari' apparently.
By incrementing the useragent I discovered that it loads and all works just fine when I pretend I'm using Safari 8, there's no 'proceed at your own risk' link so I can only chalk it up to google being dicks.
I believe the reason for the tiny shelf you have to quickly empty is twofold, it means the tills take up less space, which means more shop space for stuff they can sell, and it speeds up the flow through the tills because peer pressure makes most people just pile it straight back into their empty trolley and sort it out after they've paid.
My strategy is to load everything onto the belt (heavy stuff at the front, fragile at the back), and line the now empty trolly with two or three of those strong reusable bags they sell, I can keep up with the cashier and end up with well packed bags that are easy^h^h^h^h possible to lift straight into the car, but then I'm a bit nutty when it comes to packing things, bags, cars, dishwashers.
Of all the things that might happen, users going directly to websites rather than through google/facebook is by far the least likely.
Whats more likely to happen is that someone will come along with better search with less advertising (just like Google did), or someone might build a better social network with less advertising (just like facebook did). There's as much precidence for these things reoccurring as there is for users increasingly searching rather than using the url bar.
Agreed, this would also look bad if a caption was just a few chars short of the width causing it to look indented compared to surrounding multiple line captions.
Use left, right or centre, not a mishmash.