Well, for large values of 60, that is close, or not?

Only in a country where you use imperial units.'
At all other places on earth, the units are extremely unhandy.

No idea why you can not cope with the fact that a pint is 620ml, or 625ml or 630ml, what ever the vendor thinks a pint should be: and has printed it on that bottle.

After all you only buy a bottle of beer ...

And all other bottles are either 333ml, 250ml or 1000ml or 1500ml and in rare cases 2000ml.

There is never any reason to "divide the number" by any other number, and get "interesting simple" results.

When you make drought for a cake and need 250g flour, who funk cares into which numbers you can divide that, when it is about 0.55 of your pounds? You have a weight/scale. And you put flour into it, until you have what you want.

And if you think you go fancy and only make a quarter of it: then you damn calculate 250/4 which is roughly 62g ... every child can do that in his mind. Divide by 2 -> 125g, divide by 2 again, so simple.

No idea why Americans always come up with this "divisible" myth.

No one cares how base unit can be divided. Unless you are an American, obviously.

The year has roughly 360 days, hence we have a 360 degree circle.

Cut this into 4, gives you the 4 majour directions. Or 4 nice spots on a clock. Now the only question is: how to divide such a quarter. Basically every culture on the planet settled on dividing such a quarter into 3 segments. Hence we have 12 around the circle, and 12 hours (originally 12 double hours) and 12 months.

While some "esoteric" measure systems use 400 degrees (called gon) for a circle, in daily life of an astronomer or navigator: 360 is simply better. Because a star rising yesterday "over there" will rise today, on degree off. And tomorrow 2 degrees off. If the circle base was not 360, but an arbitrary number, like 660 ... the star positions would not be obvious by simply adding one degree each day.

Now as you have divided the sky into 360 degrees, it makes no sense to pick a different base for the planet, or circles. Splitting up the 360 degrees into 12 parts, is simply convenient. As it is close to ten, is easy to paint by hand, and so on. On top of that, plenty of places on earth have close to 12h daylight and 12h night ... so making the whole day 10 hours long, like the french tried, means your daylight is only 5hours. That basically means, sunrise and sunset and noon or midnight are at completely odd numbers.

The analog clock hanging there in the school room is hanging there probably since the school got opened ... and got never replaced.

Then multiple the minutes by 5.
I doubt anyone is doing that.
I do not read 3 times 5 when the big hand is on the 15. I read 15. Seriously?

The rest does not make any sense to me.

The racist problem was âoesolvedâ when we reduced every classroom down to the lowest common denominator with No Child Left Behind.
No one is believing that you actually did that.
Everything points to either:
- you have nearly no education
- the bar is much to high to make enough pass

Not being able to read the clock only means no one took the 5 minutes it takes to teach one how to do it. How can that be "lowest denominator"?

Well, they taught the alphabet - why not clocks?

My mother taught me reading the clock when I was about 3 ...
A few weeks ago I met a 25 year old, who could not read the clock (was my first time - did not think/know such people do exist).

The captain and the owner.

Does not matter what flags or crews etc.

Depends on the accident.

There can be accidents without reckless driving.

The word "accident" actually implies that it was out of control of the involved parties. Does not mean it was not preventable, but at the time and point it happened, it was not preventable.

Dismissing criminal charges does not mean they are not guilty or do not get punished, and/or do not pay for the damage.

The internal pipes were destroyed. They tried to pump sea water through them, until the water came out of the building.

There would have been no scramble to inject seawater to prevent the meltdown.
As we both know: the melt down was (a) week(s) later. Not related at all to lost diesel generators.
But perhaps your memory is getting weak. Or the false information everywhere is more persistent in your memory, than what actually happened.

It is rape by the definition of your stupid law.
Make the law different: and it is not rape anymore.
How farking stupid are you?

Denying young people the basic human right of having sex, and then on top of that prosecute them as rapists? Asshole.

"World human rights" is not the law of the land in this country. no one said that.

We don't have to go by the perverted standards of other countries whose views fed into what ultimately became "world human rights"
Having an age of consent at 18, and having idiotic laws, that make two 17 year olds who have sex, criminals and sex offenders: that is perverted.

Did you read your links?

First link already has it in the headline: "unofficial churches". I stopped right there, did not bother your other links. I bet they are the same :P