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Who is Smarter?

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture

in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a

cloud of dust. <http://groups.fropki.com/>

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? "

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Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at is peacefully

grazing herd and calmly answers, " Sure, Why not? " <http://groups.fropki.com/>

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-resoluti on photo. <http://groups.fropki.com/>

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it

to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.

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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. <http://groups.fropki.com/>

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. <http://groups.fropki.com/>

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

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Then the Bud says to the young man, " Hey, if I can tell you exactly what

your business is, will you give me back my calf? "

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The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, " Okay, why

not? " <http://groups.fropki.com/>

" You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government " , says

Bud.<http://groups.fropki.com/>

Wow! That's correct, " says the yuppie, " but how did you guess

that? " <http://groups.fropki.com/>

" 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... <http://groups.fropki.com/>

Now give me back my dog. <http://groups.fropki.com/><http://groups.fropki.com/>