exactly my thoughts too.....
to issue students laptops would be A LOT of money in a schools budget. even in a good economy how many schools could afford to do this?
my school day starts at 0800 and ends at 1445...I get just as much sleep as if it ended at 1300...
why Kelvin? 0K is "absolute zero" or the temperature at which NOTHING moves..... to get a temp of 70F it would be how many thousands of K's?
Mr., Mrs., Ms., and Miss are all formalities. If I was a teacher I wouldnt want my students saying "hey Kevin!" I would require "Hey, Mr. Brown!" How I was raised, how I'll die.
wtf is dvorak keyboard layout??? 
putting the ability to inject nanobots into someones DNA so they can function, in my eyes, proves current societies lazyness and dependancy on technology to technology to make through a simple day.
All my teachers put theyre homework online, we can send powerpoints to them, some of them put the current days lesson online.... some public schools are ahead of yours.....
Timezones... to do away with this would be pointless in my eyes... it could be 12PM ET right now and still dark outside because we are -5 UTC.... taking away PM we may as well incorporate 24 hour clocks.
Dvorak is a keyboard layout built for speed, as opposed to QWERTY, which was actually built to create typos and slow you down (early typewriters couldn't handle the speed). It would require a few weeks' training, but you'd gain around 10 wpm and a good dose of accuracy. It's the way it was supposed to be in the first place.
On titles, my point exactly. They're needless- we have first names for a reason. For a long time, we only had one name (e.g., Socrates, Joseph). Last names are a necessity nowadays due to the billions of people that we have, but titles are a bizarre holdover from medieval times.
The laptops would be just like calculators (which run at around $80 a pop)- most would buy them themselves, and aid would take care of the rest. It turns out that enough people feel bad about not paying for it themselves if they can that the cost goes way down. Buying in bulk directly from suppliers also drives costs down. In addition, laptops are a common feature of many households already, so it's not like you have to buy them for everyone. Districts can also collect old laptops and refurbish them, or ask for donations (with the donor's name glued on it). There's plenty that can be done to reduce the cost.
Ok, so let's get with the times, then. Can your school teach our school how to get our stuff online? I kid you not.
So I guess when Oog and Boog thought of the wheel and moved their stuff on rickshaws instead of their backs, they were lazy? We make technology to make things easier, so that we can do more of what we want and less of what we don't. That's logic, not laziness. In fact, the "simple" day that you speak of is only simple because of the vast amount of technology in it already. For example, before small-scale refrigerators and ovens (as opposed to hearths) cooking used to take all day. So what's so great about doing stuff like fiddling with the lights, heat, garage door, keyboards/mice, credit/debit cards, printers, yourself, anyway? I can use your argument to take civilization back to the stone age.
@Hannibal Yes, let's inhale acrid, stifling smoke in order to escape reality. Woohoo! Lung cancer!
@Dragon, I get it, I made a multiplication error. I'll do it on paper next time. Yes, I know it makes me look like an idiot.
-Penguin
