A poorly designed mouse is still going to be a problem, no matter how much a person knows about ergonomics.

I've been looking at some highly ergonomic keyboards (Dvorak layout, contoured), which have a list price of $289 (PS/2) or $299 (USB). I really out to put out the money for one, but I still haven't managed to learn Dvorak and don't want to buy a keyboard I can't type on (well, I can touch-type Qwerty so it wouldn't be entirely useless).

When $80 gets me a mouse that doesn't hurt my hand, then I'm going to shell out that money.

Ergonomics is expensive.

Agreed. I was hoping for an 'ergonomic' category for the keyboard, which a 'programming' category would fit neatly into. The best was that a few of the 'generic' category keyboards were listed as being ergonomic.

That sounds way too much like all of the computer/video games that are being marketed at toddlers and young children, which I am beginning to doubt is going to have a good overall outcome (obesity rate?).

My point was more along the lines that the most defining moment is different for different people, even different depending on how you look at it.

I wouldn't say that conception ss the "single most defining" instant. My mother had two or three miscarriages before I was born, so I would say that first making it past the point the miscarriages did and then coming out alive were far more "defining", for me, than conception was.

That neither completely goes against what I said, nor does it completely agree with what I said. After Tinker V Des Moines, other cases reduced the amount of free speech that students in public k12 schools have, leaving the only place with complete freedom speech being within classroom discussions. The school can still censor anything they want in any student-run/school-sponsored publications and, presumably, whatever students want to post on boards outside of their classrooms. If we go with the fact that events/publications that are school-sponsored can be censored by the school, then there is a good case that these laptops in question can be restricted and censored as much as the school district wants. However, this begs the question, can the First Amendment even be applied to the laptops in the first place? How does restricting what a student can do on a (school-sponsored) laptop abridge their rights to freedom of speech?

The First Amendment pretty much does not apply to public k12 schools, though how much of those rights are removed is dependent on the state.