posted on Jun, 23 2014 @ 11:29 PM
A cowboy named Bud was
overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture in Alberta
when suddenly a brand-new
BMW advanced toward him out
of a 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-reso lution
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,
"Hey, 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 Member of the 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.