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Author Unknown<\/p>\n
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
\npasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new 2016 7 Series BMW
\nadvanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in
\na Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out
\nthe window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows
\nand calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”<\/p>\n
Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his
\npeacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?”
\nThe yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,
\nconnects it to his Apple i phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
\nInternet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
\nlocation which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
\narea in an ultra-high-resolution photo.<\/p>\n
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop\u00ae and
\nexports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany .
\nWithin seconds, he receives an email on his Apple iPad that the image
\nhas been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQ
\ndatabase through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his
\nGalaxy S8 and, after a few minutes, receives a response.<\/p>\n
Finally, he prints out a full-color,150-page report on his hi-tech,
\nminiaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You
\nhave exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”<\/p>\n
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.<\/p>\n
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
\namusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car<\/p>\n
Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
\nyour business is, will you give me back my calf?”<\/p>\n
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”<\/p>\n
“You’re a Congressman from the U.S. Government”, says Bud<\/p>\n
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, \u201cbut how did you guess that?”<\/p>\n
“No guessing required,” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even
\nthough nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
\nknew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth
\nof equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and
\nyou don’t know crap about how working people make a living — or
\nabout cows, for that matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a herd of sheep; now give me back my dog.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n AND THAT, FOLKS, IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ! ! !<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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