An old Drover named Bill was grazing his herd along a remote outback road when a late model BMW appeared in a cloud of dust. The driver, a younger man, flash as a rat with a gold tooth, leaned out the window and said, If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf? Bill looked over the visitor and calmly answered, Sure, why not? The yuppie parked his car, whipped out a notebook computer, connected it to his Smart phone, surfed to a NASA page on the Internet, where he called up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on location which he then fed to another NASA satellite that scanned the area in ultra-high-resolution. Opened the digital image in Photoshop and exported it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ... Within seconds, he’d received an email the image has been processed and stored. He then accessed a database through an online connection and, after a few minutes, got a response. Brandishing a full colour report on his notebook as proof, he turned to Bill and said, You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves. Bill looked surprised. “Thats right. Well, help yourself to one of me calves. You won it fair en square. He watched the man select an animal, gingerly pick it up & stuff it into the car boot. While the yuppie brushed dust & hair off his fancy suit, Bill said, Hey, if I tell you exactly where you come from & what work you do, will you give me back my calf? The yuppie thought a moment, wondering what a wrinkled up, grimy, uneducated old man could possibly know? He grinned and said, Okay, Pop, why not? I believe in fair play. You come from Canberra and you’re a bureaucrat. replied the old timer. I can’t believe that! said the yuppie. It’s true, but how on earth did you guess? No guessing required. answered Bill You showed up here even though nobody called you; you wanted payment 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: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:10:13 +0000
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