[AVGWarhawk]

> A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
> pasture in Montana 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, Ray Ban®
> 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 Congressman for the U.S. 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.
>
> AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.