Good Intentions

Peter Sleman

October 13, 2020, 06:15 AM 3

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Mike S
October 14, 2020 08:14 am
Well done! How many ideas seem really great to start, but end up creating more problems than they solve? Someone thought it was a great idea to use giant hogweed as cattle feed. Let’s just say, they were wrong, but the unintended consequences of that idea is all that is left in Russia.
Pro Say
October 13, 2020 06:56 pm
Sorry (but not really), this invention is abstract (no matter how the claims are worded), because … killing people is merely (we do so love that word) a human activity which has existed since time immemorial.

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Paul Cole
October 13, 2020 10:21 am
In 1794 the chemist Antoine Lavoisier quite lost his head at the brilliance of this invention.