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Joke of the day

• As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female (e.g., "Steady as she goes", or "She's listing to starboard, Captain!").
• Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow:
• Five reasons to believe computers are female:
• 1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
• 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
• 3. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you".
• 4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
• 5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
• However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male. Their reasons follow:
• Five reasons to believe computers are male:
• 1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
• 2. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.
• 3. As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.
• 4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
• 5. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night.