After his air attack against Assad? More than ever. Here is the man that will see red and sign a blank check for Austria-Hungary as soon as he receives shocking news from Sarajevo.
]]>While I agree with the general thrust of your points, I think that in this particular case you've got it wrong. Neither the Kaiser himself nor "Little Willie" (assuming you mean the Crown Prince) would have been fit to head a constitutional monarchy. For one, neither of them could really accept a democratic system (and the role played by the Crown Prince in paving the way for Hitler proves his personal shortcomings all too well). And second, but equally important: their credibility as figureheads for a monarchy of any kind was severely damaged by their flight to the Netherlands at the end of WWI. Even the German monarchists during the Weimar Republic largely abandoned House Hohenzollern, because in their majority they considered the Kaiser and the Crown Prince to be cowards. In their perspective the honourable thing to do for Wilhelm II would have been to die at the western front. This was carefully suggested among his advisers in the fateful days in November 1918, but Wilhelm decided otherwise.
Last thought – does Donaldo Trumpolini remind one, perhaps, not of Bennie, but Wilhelm II?
Oh, he does. Ever since the campaign last year he reminded me much more of Wilhelm II than of the later dictators.
There is one epithet about Wilhelm II (unfortunately I'm not sure by whom and I can't seem to find it; I think it could be by Fritz Fischer; I learned it from my history teacher in school and have remembered it ever since) which sums up his character like this: "Wilhelm II konnte reden - das war seine Gabe; und er wollte reden - das war sein Verhängnis." (roughly: "Wilhelm II was a speaker - that was his gift; and he liked to speak - that was his undoing.") I was reminded of this every time I heard about one of DT's speeches/blunders (still, they haven't undone him yet).
]]>And yo have answered the potential question - "Who is big enough to drag him & his wrecked country down?" Answer, the PRC.
Meanwhile, my original question about the damage from that brief period & how we are still struggling to escape its coils, remains.
]]>Since you're looking for a way to measure via electronic medium, here's a PHD thesis for you - note well, this is merely modelling the issue rather than actually empirically viewing it:
Oscillatory Dynamics as a Mechanism of Integration in Complex Networks of Neurons Mark Wildie, Imperial College London, 2013. PDF: warning, long, 173 pages. Chapter 4+5 are useful.
TL;DR
Even the models haven't really been built yet. PHD is useful mainly for Bibliography, but also understanding that coherent / accurate modelling hasn't even been done on this yet (by you).
]]>For me it's twice a day, 30-60 seconds with a cheap Philips twin-head rotary travel shaver, both times while I'm on the loo (so occupying otherwise-dead time).
Yes, I have a beard and moustache, but I still need to shave my neck and sides. The once a fortnight head-trimmer/head shave takes a bit longer—but still no more than ten minutes.
]]>Ten minutes though... is that like, gods, I can't even think of a way to spend ten minutes shaving. Cutting a hair at a time with a microblade?
]]>Plus if you've got scars or moles it can get notably trickier and thus slower.
Me, I gave up on electric razors; I find a nice simple safety razor works better, costs less, and razor blades recycle.
]]>There comes a time where looking a decade older goes from being an advantage to being a disadvantage in the workplace, and if I grow a beard I need to change all my ID which is a pain.
]]>With the shift in US publishers from Ace to Tor, the mass-market paperback for The Nightmare Stacks seems to have fallen through the cracks. DO you know when/if it will be scheduled?
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