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 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, "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 Politician for 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.
> 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 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, "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 Politician for 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.
