PG&E is seeking monopoly authority over EV charging in northern California.
Just as the US government want a monopoly on the use of military force – waging wars to "spread democracy" while condemning those who fight back as "terrorists" – they correspondingly seek a monopoly on the use of hacking.
"Mullah Omar has frequently insisted that we do not seek a monopoly on political power, and we want a government of all Afghans in our beloved country," the Taliban statement said.
It's a cross between hide and seek and Monopoly and it's pretty weird.
Stuewe scoffs at the notion that Dar Pro is seeking a monopoly.
And those who accused the party patriarch of seeking a monopoly on power were 'on the whole, naturally impotent themselves'.
More than 160 people have died, and at least as many have been injured, as the Hell's Angels have brutally sought a monopoly of Quebec's drug trade, from growing marijuana to retail sales of cocaine.
These "anti-execution 'survivors of homicide,' " the authors state, "challenge a vengeance-rights lobby that has sought a monopoly on the image of crime victims, an angry image exploited and perpetuated by politicians".
Similarly, while attacking the government's charge that Microsoft sought a monopoly in the Web browser market, Microsoft quoted from the judge's findings as follows: "The evidence is insufficient to find that Microsoft's ambition is a future in which most or all of the content available on the Web would be accessible only through its own browsing software".
Only public authority can punish or rightly engage in war, and it is reasonable for public authorities to seek a virtual monopoly on what would now be called police operations for the prevention, suppression, and detection of crime.
