I don't mind the cordless/wireless stuff like phones, flashlight, and the like. But in power tools, I need to be plugged in. Most of the jobs I do require serious torque, repeatedly. I either need to be plugged in or internal combustion powered.

Yeah, I've hacked into a few cords. Two or 3 times in 12 years of remodeling and building things is acceptable. (The worst bonehead mistake of that type I ever made was running over an extension cord that was laying across the lawn. The problem was that I ran over it with the riding lawn mower, with the blades engaged. Didn't bother to try to repair that).

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley