Jamiewx
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Cowboy
Sat Jun 24 2006 05:18 PM
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COWBOY
A cowboy was herding his cows in
a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new
BMW advanced out of a dust cloud
towards him. The driver, a young man in a
Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the
window and asks the cowboy,
"If I tell you exactly how
many cows and calves you have in your herd, will
you give me a calf?"
The cowboy 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 navigation system 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 a 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
and finally 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 the
cowboy.
He watches the young man select
one of the animals and looks on amused as
the young man stuffs it into the
trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy 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 Congressman for
the U.S. Government", says the cowboy.
"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 tried to show me
how much smarter than me you are;
and you don't know a thing about cows...
Now give me back my dog."
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"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get"
- Robert A. Heinlein
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