And on a lighter note An old station hand named Billy was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in the outback 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 old man, If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf? Billy looks at the young 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 yuppie 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 Billy and says, You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves. > Thats right. Well, youll be helpin yourself to one of me calves, then, since you won it fair en square. says Billy. > > He watches the smartly dressed yuppie select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the man gingerly picks it up & stuffs it into the boot of his car. As the yuppie is carefully brushing the dust & hair off his suit, Billy says, Hey, if I can tell you exactly what work you do & where you come from, will you give me back my calf? > The yuppie thinks about it for a second, wondering what this wrinkled up dirt encrusted uneducated old man could possibly know? He grins and then says, Okay, old fella, why not? Im a believer in fair play. > Youre a politician & you work in Canberra. says the old timer. > Wow! Thats correct, says the yuppie, but, tell me how on earth did you guess that? > No guessing required. answered Billy 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 dont 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. > AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:34:42 +0000
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