{"id":742,"date":"2014-12-24T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=742"},"modified":"2014-12-24T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:06:37","slug":"are-computers-male-or-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Are Computers Male or Female?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><B>Five reasons to believe computers are female:<\/B><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.<\/li>\n<li>The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.<\/li>\n<li>The message &#8220;Bad command or file name&#8221; is about as informative as, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m mad at you, then I&#8217;m certainly not going to tell you&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male. Their reasons follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.<\/li>\n<li>They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.<\/li>\n<li>In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.<\/li>\n<li>Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both sides present compelling arguments. Only you can decide whether your computer is male or female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five reasons to believe computers are female: No one but the Creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else. The message &#8220;Bad command or file name&#8221; is about as informative as, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m mad at you, then I&#8217;m certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[406,924,992],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computer","tag-lists","tag-men-vs-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}