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Poison ivy and stinging nettles can cause a lot of pain, but they have nothing on the Gympie-Gympie tree, whose leaves can put people into intensive care and induce agony that lasts for days or even months. Is there some contractual obligation that everything in that country is trying to kill/hurt people?
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On a more positive note, I know where to shop for my in-laws Christmas tree this year.
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From the article: Predictably, Gympie-Gympie trees come from Australia,
Kent Sharkey wrote: Is there some contractual obligation that everything in that country is trying to kill/hurt people?
Apparently so, Exhibit B ->![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif) , 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is there some contractual obligation that everything in that country is trying to kill/hurt people?
On the other hand...
[Mother Nature:] Why is that, that these "civilized" people adhere stubbornly to live here despite all the warnings that they are not welcome and all the low-profile attempts to tell them to "go away"?
M.D.V. 
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The Gympie-Gympie is nothing compared to the deadly drop bear.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I second that. Drop bears are must see attaction at Taronga Zoo.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Why would anyone want to live in Australia? Trees, spiders, snakes, sharks, killer emus...
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Don't forget the drop bears... and Fosters beer... and vegemite 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Related to this topic:
Possibly the creepiest movie I've ever seen with my own two eyes (in a good way, that is):
Long Weekend (2008) - IMDb[^]
A DVD/Blueray I don't have yet but tops the list of discs I need to acquire.
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Researchers suggested guidelines for designing autonomous machines such as robots, self-driving cars, drones and personal assistants that will effectively collaborate with soldiers. "Shall we play a game?"
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But the next question is.. should we really trust them that much hey?! 
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I am starting to think on buying a dog... just in case we teach the machines too good about how to fool us.
M.D.V.
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There's a game called Yakuza 6 where this guy installs this AI app on your phone that collabs with you, but it's also sneaky and will plot against you if you look to uninstall it (remember it has a city full of users it can suggest things to stop you)
This immediately reminded me of that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Microsoft announced the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, graduating to version 1.0. Just like Visual Studio, but without the features!
But it might get a few folk off vim (or ... emacs)
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Oh wow, it has just entered beta testing. Very good.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A majority of admins surveyed this summer say Microsoft's oft ballyhooed twice-a-year upgrades for Windows 10 aren't really worth the hassle. See above (and/or below) for details
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You forgot to say that the below search can go back some months if desired, there is plenty of material about the subject  
M.D.V.
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I don't understand why that's anything to brag about in the first place. What's wrong with your product that it needs twice yearly updates?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Upcoming Windows 10 update set to offer up a more complete dark mode. Apparently "all" doesn't mean what I thought it meant
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My windows 10 already has this, its labeled "Shut down".
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WPR is one of the two main components of Windows Performance Toolkit. "Do you wanna go faster?"
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Websites that enable Cloudflare’s Always Online service will now have their content automatically archived, and if by chance the original host is not available to Cloudflare, then the Internet Archive will step in to make sure the pages get through to users. "Where are we going today, Mr. Peabody?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if by chance the original host is not available to Cloudflare, then the Internet Archive will step in to make sure the pages get through to users.
What a master move... outsourcing the backup service and the redundancy system for when they f*** it up
M.D.V. 
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Now out of beta and available for everyone, GitHub CLI 1.0 brings GitHub to the terminal where developers can manage their own workflows. Now instead of using the command-line for git, you can use the command-line!
Yes, it does way more than you can do with the regular git.exe, but I still want to make fun of it. Please and thank you.
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My idea of a learning organization is one that focuses on what we learned from the incident and the improvements that come from it. "Pain is the greatest teacher"
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