get 100 of your best friends, each kick in $2 and this will widen your chances. let me ask you how enthusiastic americans are about lotteries generally. what s happened in your stats? how excited do americans get about this? i can tell you americans are generally an optimistic bunch. this last year we spent more on lottery tickets than we did on buying books, video games, going to the movies and going to sporting events, all those things combined. and if you re feeling really lucky and you re hoping to win both big jackpots, i can tell you your odds on that one. it s 1 in 88 quadrillion. that s with 15 zeros, david. people in florida are blindly
one of the problems when people get interested in nutrition there s so much confusion out there. you know, it s great that so many people are interested in alternative medicine and nutrition are trying to change their life and their family s eating habits and they go to the bookstores and health food stores and start buying books and you get the books like everyone should be the vegetarian, no animal products at all and 75% carbohydrate and 15% protein and a little bit of fat from the plant-based sources and you pull out bob atkins book and he thought all humans whatever their size, shape, form or geographic ancestors should be on a high-fat and no-meat diet pip diet. it was 75% fat and 15% protein and they thought all humans should follow the diet jut like the others were fanatical on their side. and you get the mediterranean people who thinks people should be on a balanced diet and eat
millions of dollars buying them back. the surface ii is a little faster. they seem to be going after that laptop market. if you flip it around it has the keyboard and it stands up on its own. the higher end, the surface 2 pro is more like a laptop. which is your favorite? i m partial to the ipad. i like the google products. are they the same price. relatively the same price. google products tend to be cheaper. the nexus products are always a little bit less expensive. amazon s keindle s are also les expensive. that s their motto, lesser price on the device and then you ll spend the money on buying books. time for our must-see moment
standardized tests. we can have our discussions about standardized tests and the history of bias in those tests. what we re really talking about is a high stakes mechanism, this no excuse motto over success of administrations. no excuses when you ve got a standard that you want 100% success or the school failed, you have n agenda for no explanation, no inquiry, no explanation, no discussion of how is a kid faring. what might make it more successful for the student. not just one moment of testing. i m wondering how it makes us do odd things. as much as i want to absolutely honor what you re saying about the numbers that you re looking at, i think we have to honor the professors on some of this. some of the this ings we know for example is library budgets get cut from buying books in order to instead buy test prep materials. i just want to say, i m there s
social movements, this happened in the 19th century with the industrial revolution. we still have the products, but workers you can be big and unionized. you said what s the problem with bigness? well, ultimately bigness is the network effect, it is monopolies. th that s why you had trust busting, and publishers getting together. i wanted to hear your thoughts on this as the operator of one of these dead-end boutique operators. there s no more independent bookstores, and in the last few years an increase in the number of independent bookstores. we re not asking people to shop with us because it s the right thing to do. we re bringing them in because what we do is good and it s what they want. but at the same time, we re not hoping to like take the place of other kinds of buying books. we re happy if people buy books wherever they are. but we do want an equal playing field. we want everyone to pay their sales tax, we want i want to i want to hear more about this level