On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:16:59 +1300 Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote:
=Hi, = =A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous =pasture in Alberta 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, 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 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 Member of Parliament for the Canadian 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. At last! A post I can fully understand. John _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
