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>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 AT&T 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 1586 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 consultant for the National Democratic
>Party." 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; and you don't
>know anything about my
>business........ Now give me back my dog."
