There were no standardized abbreviations before the US Postal Service created them. At best you had something like the Associated Press style manual for datelines. Canada Post collaborated (note that "MB" is the only possible abbreviation for Manitoba that doesn't overlap with a US state).

It's up there with there/their/they're and to/too/two: "WA" has a clear and unambiguous meaning and its incorrect use is jarring, interrupting the smooth flow of reading while we have to consciously decipher the writer's intent.

The newspaper's name is Washington Post, and the typical jargon shorthand is "WaPo." Anagama wanted to use jargon to sound "in the know" and instead made the source sound like a no-name local competitor to the Seattle Times.

Prior art

I love it when people try to show themselves as clever and end up showing the complete opposite.

The NSA pays Microsoft $200k to implement the "bug "to begin with, so they're still making a net profit.

That is not a tumor, that is evidence of a tumor. As you are pointing to a fossil and not actual bone, the actual tumor is long gone.

Here we have actual bones, and an actual tumor.

It's a same we can't moderate the article as flamebait.

... in Vienna.

That might mean something if the energy was consumed at a uniform rate over the course of 86,400 s. That is true of neither homes nor LHCs.

BoA didn't try to blame their poor reputation on homophobes.

Would even that be enough? I have a motherboard with Firewire ports, but the only use I get out of them is when I need to connect my sister's MacBook for some reason.

I've got more USB 3.0 devices than I do Firewire.

That's not the whole story here, though:

After Google demanded that the definition be changed and the Council add a disclaimer

Ungoogleable adj.--Describes a concept that cannot be found using lesser, inferior, and possibly hazardous search engines, but readily available using Google's superior technology; nothing is impossible for Google, your new best friend! Sign up for Google+ today!

Organizations have a hard enough time explaining to their adult employees how to avoid phishing scams and the like, and they have knowledgeable professionals doing the training. It is wholly unrealistic to expect one or two individual parents to be able to adequately protect the privacy and information security of minors against entities that have the drive and resources of Facebook.

This isn't EA's first screw-up, and yet enough "came back" for this to be an issue.

I sincerely doubt it. Ultimately, EA's problem with SimCity was that they had too many paying customers. That's generally not something shareholders or board members would be terribly displeased by.

There's no real indication that EA's bottom line is hurting regardless, let alone what it would be caused by.

Golden parachute.

... the only reason I have and log into a Google account.