Word: wrenching
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Steve Y. Lee: A six-inch wrench...
...enabling technology. Still, so long as a product had certain features which meant that the company running the service never directly contributed to the creation of illegal copies (like a KaZaA or Grokster), it could rest reasonably well-assured it would not be forced to shut down. The wrench that the Court threw into the works in the Grokster case was to say that a simple doctrine of “substantial noninfringing use” was not sufficient. If, as the music industry argued, a peer-to-peer network was encouraging (or, in the language of the decision...
...Sung Tongs” channeled a chilled, sometimes urgent songcraft (think the Beach Boys on acid) with just Avey Tare and Panda Bear appearing, only half of the group. It was only a matter of time before Geologist and Deakin would join their zoomates and throw a monkey wrench into the band’s musical progression...
...worth of SAC reforms—that made the position such a pearl in the past.But that didn’t stop the race from being a heated one. Gadgil snagged it after a week of intense campaigning, becoming the first female SAC chair since 1997 and throwing a wrench in any presidential plans Haddock had. Instead, Haddock will reprise the vice-chair position he held last year, and his chances for the presidency may suffer accordingly. Then again, if he achieves as much in the coming semester as he did in the last, he’ll have...
...food in other cafeterias isn’t good either. The difference, in fact, is that the line for Fly-By moves at the speed of the slowest, shortest girl spooning meat lasagna into her stupid plasticized white cup (plus the 30 seconds it takes for her to wrench the cap onto said cup), whereas all other cafeterias move at the speed it takes...