A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a
>remote mountainous pasture in California 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, who obviously is 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 onhis 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, "Hey, if I can
>tell you exactly what your business is, will you
>give me back my calf?"
>bb
>The young man thinks about it for a second and
>then says, "Okay, why not?"
>
>"You're a U.S. Congressman", 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.
>
