WolfBucks

Power supplies and amplifiers, yes. When high power-to-volume densities are needed, and weight must be minimized, the royal road is to higher voltages.

Lots of military stuff runs at 1000 Vdc (typically +/- 500 Vdc).

Certainly explains the timing and trumpet rolls.

Joe Gwinn

Somewhat nauseating to see the Democrats cynically trying to buy support in swing states with voters they normally treat like filthy doormats.

And the example of a Democrat administration treating North Carolina like a filthy doormat is?

US Republicans and Democrats do try to buy votes in marginal electorates, and it is habit you see in action in other countries too.

Australia's equivalent of the Republicans - the right-wing Liberal and Country Party Coalition - did it on a large scale in the run-up to the most recent election, and the Labor Party - who won that election - were happy to published the damning documents, including spread-sheets colour-coded by political preference.

Mixed metaphores ? .... or is trumpet-rolling a sport I have never encountered ?

No relation to strumpets.

Maybe "trumpet fanfares" would be better.

Joe Gwinn

Rolling around with strumpets is fun.

No comment.

Joe

Samuel Pepys certainly thought so and did plenty of it, back in those long gone days when England was merry.