Well, shit. My phone are my reply which was quite long. So sorry my second go will be worse.

The EMF requirement is yours not mine. I don't see why an emf of 0 is a problem. Just a special case of complex impedances. But given your requirement capacitors fit.
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I've also never heard the term "series loop" before, and that only holds for a pair. What would you call it work 3, 4,5 or more capacitors connected how I specified as parallel?

When you say"no it only behaves that way", that's what I was talking about. A paralleled set of capacitors can be plugged in and behaves as one capacitor too am external circuit. Circulating currents or not ate part of that. A parallel R And C behave as a single complex Z externally, and certainly have circulating currents even in the ideal case.

As for describing it with a single capacitor, this is where pedantry falls because it goes all the way down.You can't describe a single real capacitor as an an ideal point lumped element. So one night as well say "good luck describing any real capacitor as a single capacitor". To preclude one and not the other you have to pick a very specific level of approximation to make your definition of parallel.

Though this of course is where the OPs answer comes from. A pair of ideal capacitors connected in parallel is a single capacitor. The ideal model doesn't work for only having the left half of a capacitor charged in isolation. Or alternatively implies infinite currents. But since it's not ideal...

Imagine you have R, C on series with a battery. R charges C too 10V and then C2 is connected in parallel with C. You are I presume on with that. Now let R get very large. At some point, say 10^12 ohms, it becomes indistinguishable from a cut wire. So at what point does it become not parallel?

On to the switches. I have a DC powered device with some input filtering, namely a couple of capacitors in a series loop with the pair of those forming a series loop with the rest of the circuit. Is that how I should describe it when off? I can assure you any EE would look at me like I had sprouted an extra head of I said that when the circuit was off, and parallel when on. It's the same circuit diagram after all!

Let's be real. It still has quite some way to go. But unless there are drastic changes in the voter population, that is where it is going.

Yes. Lets hope not too rough (as in WW3 or the like), but yes. It had to happen. And it will be be ultimately a good thing.

While certainly historically accurate, do you think the MAGAs can be really reached that way? They seem so deeply stuck in their made-up parallel universe that nothing can shake their deep and entirely baseless conviction that they are right.

Must have been a long, long time ago ...

That would be sort-of a good thing. But the reality is that the US voter population is broken and wants to remove democracy.

Racism is universally bad. I guess that detail is a bit too complicated for you ...

And on the other hand, said comedian does a far better job than any career politician would have done. Maybe these people are valuable to society?

Like a true MAGA moron, you cannot read and have no clue what the function of a free press is. This "ban" is also applied to unclassified materials and obviously does not cover any illegal activities at all. Because, you know, these are already illegal.

These people have no shame.

Keep hallucinating. What will happen is that some things will simply not be available in the US anymore, and for others you will have to pay through the nose. The tariffs are one reason for that, but the more important one is that the US has grown unreliable (another blithering idiot may well get voted into office after Trump, directly or later) and businesses like that not one bit. They have moved out of countries for that reason alone.

Hence enjoy your delusions while the real changes are still possible to ignore. After that, good luck! You will need it.

Indeed. I work with some people that analyze firmware and software for critical government uses here. Using FOSS makes that analysis massively easier, and placing some of your own devs in there makes it even easier and you get additional benefits.

Indeed. Corrupting this decision would require a coup now. Also note that the decision was made 5 years ago and MS had ample time. And whatever they tried failed.

He probably got nothing, but may have gotten legal threats. Others will not even try to do the right thing these days, because there is no reward for that.

That has already happened and MS did not notice at all. After 2 years, one of their customers noticed:
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/def...

The utter catastrophe of the MS cloud "strategy" is slowly getting worse and worse. Most "decision makers" at MS customers are deep in denial because they do not have an exit strategy. But there is really no way this is going to end in any other way than very badly. MS still cannot get basic stuff right at this time. That simply means they cannot fix the crap they built anymore and the only way to curb the mounting (and already extreme) cost of those defects is to move away to better products.