"It just means this specific matter arrived on earth after the planet was already pretty well formed."

The material from which the earth formed likely contained such material as well . It didn't necessarily have to rain from the sky. Some of that material may have originated on what are now non-existent, i.e. destroyed, planets. All the metals on the earth are a result of previous generations of stars, so why couldn't at least some of this type of material not have been included in the "mix" as well? Bacteria have been found deep inside rocks on earth so why should something similar not have been in the rocks and planetesimals from which the earth formed?

It will shrink

Didn't you know, the US Constitution doesn't always apply when the issue involves computers as its framers intended for that to be the case.

https://www.xkcd.com/538/

Lately it seems that most of the hackers getting caught are not even 20 years old, many of them still juveniles. Is this because it's juvenile behaviour and there are less adults out there doing the same type of thing or are the older (more experienced?) hackers just a lot more careful to not get caught?

I'm sure that many of the IP addresses are also not from the US. Will the FBI be confiscating computers associated with those IP addresses as well? Not that I condone their actions, but perhaps Anonymous should make it a point to only use non-US IP addresses?

Do I see a pattern?

"we need more rebellion and more public show of dissatisfaction with our so-called leaders."
You do realize that that could get you on the no-fly list?

So let us change the system, so that horseshit like this won't be the status quo.
Horseshit like this already is the status quo. Why change it now?

Better for tax money to go to frivolous IT spending than have it wasted on senseless wars.

"The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is approximately 391 ppm (parts per million) by volume as of 2011.." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere So does that mean that CO2 is .03% of our atmosphere (That is clost to 4 one-hundredths of one percent.)? While I agree that we should not be dumping crap into the atmosphere I still don't see how "doubling" this particular gas over the medium o long term should have any real noticeable effect on our climate.

linguists have also developed a list of gender-skewed words used more often by women including love, ha-ha, cute, omg, yay, hahaha, happy, girl, hair, lol, hubby, and chocolate. Remarkably, even when only provided with one tweet,

Yay omg, you are cute! I want to be a happy girl! I have no hubby and want u to rub chocolate in my hair. Hahaha!

This is how America works. Officially on paper we have more freedoms than anyone in the world but in practice it is another story. For example during an internal training session in my company I was recently informed that "our constitutional rights cease to exist in the workplace". The government may be restricted from directly trampling on our rights (which is debatable), but there is nothing in the Constitution that keeps private companies from doing so. Everything seems to have become a privilege rather than a right and privileges are a lot easier to take away both directly and indirectly. For example if you criticize the government your privilege to board an aircraft can be taken away and with that your privilege to have a job and be a normal member of society. The US Constitution is in great need of an overhaul.

It's a crime to collect evidence of police committing crimes. It must be a nice feeling to be above the law.

So now if some script kiddie, including a US citizen attempts to hack into a US govt system do they now become labeled as "illegal combatants" or "terrorists" subject to having all of their civil rights revoked since our government has declared that "terrorists have no rights"?