ace rimmer
04-11-2010, 05:53 PM
A cowboy named Bud
was overseeing his
herd in a remote mountainous pasture cloud of
dust.
The driver,
a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you
exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will
you give me a
calf?"
Bud looks
at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why
not?"
The yuppie
parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to
his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on
the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix
on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that
scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution
photo..
The young
man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it
to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany
..
Within seconds,
he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been
processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database
through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on
his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a
response.
Finally, he
prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his
hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and
says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and
calves."
"That's right.
Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says
Bud. He watches
the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement
as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his
car.
Then Bud
says to the young man, "If I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my
calf?"
The young
man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
not?"
"You're a
Congressman for the U.S. Government", says
Bud.
"Wow! That's
correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess
that?"
"No guessing
required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than
me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people
make a living - or about cows, for that
matter.
This
is a herd of sheep.
....
Now give
me back my
dog.
was overseeing his
herd in a remote mountainous pasture cloud of
dust.
The driver,
a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you
exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will
you give me a
calf?"
Bud looks
at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why
not?"
The yuppie
parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to
his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on
the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix
on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that
scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution
photo..
The young
man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it
to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany
..
Within seconds,
he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been
processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database
through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on
his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a
response.
Finally, he
prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his
hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and
says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and
calves."
"That's right.
Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says
Bud. He watches
the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement
as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his
car.
Then Bud
says to the young man, "If I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my
calf?"
The young
man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
not?"
"You're a
Congressman for the U.S. Government", says
Bud.
"Wow! That's
correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess
that?"
"No guessing
required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though
nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than
me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people
make a living - or about cows, for that
matter.
This
is a herd of sheep.
....
Now give
me back my
dog.