I hate myself for failing to see the solution to this ... :evil:

Suppose that you have two fuses, each of which takes an hour to burn from one end to the other, and as many matches as you need.

Describe how you can use the fuses to time a period of 45 minutes.

Trivial? There's a catch, though: The fuses burn at irregular rates, so you can't, for example, just cut a quarter off one of the fuses. All you can assume is that each fuse has a "burn time" of one hour.

If nobody has posted an answer in a few minutes, I'll edit this message and add the answer in a "spoiler" section. No Googling allowed!!!

Stesilaus

ANSWER

Light one fuse on both ends. When it finishes you should have (30 minutes)

Take the other fuse and cut it in half and light both ends of each half. When that fuse is all burned up 15 minutes should have passed. (15 minutes)

The big disappointment here is not that good informed citizens won out based on their own beliefs (granted there were some of those that actually had legit points to dislike the bill), but that the uninformed (i.e. death panel/destroying America crowd) that listened to the fearmongering won out.

These days sexual harrasment could be anywhere from rape to making a penis joke. Really needs to be defined before discussion.

Person1: Hmmm. How can I not break the law, but still get ultimate vengeance???

Person2: You could pay your $880 ticket in pennies.

Person1: Genius

Yeah, I've never been all that social, usually just hanging out with my main few friends. The other day go hang out with some people I usually don't and ask me why I never hung out with them. They seemed oblivious to the fact that they never asked me to hang out with them before.

Being deaf is a huge inconveniance in most situations and dangerous in a few others and doesn't allow you to do some jobs. But being blind will make most jobs impossible, be much harder to even go anywhere and will kill all forms of entertainment other than music... oh and you wouldn't be able to watch porn, lol.

Deaf by a mile.

Well a lot of times when I'm playing a game I'm in party chat with my friends, even if they're playing a different game.

Well if what they said doesn't help open up the console, type in "sv_cheats 1" (or something like that) then enter "noclip" and simply fly to the roof. Then enter "noclip"again and all is well.

I was always disappointed at how easy Big Daddies were to kill in that game (except first one)