... players and officials. Amongst other things, it has increased the penalties for slow over rates. In a draconian move, it now allows for a bowling captain to be suspended for up to one year. This is, of ... the blame here on the captain. The captain has only so much say in what happens on a field. Finally, this new raft of draconian penalties so favour teams with a large number of spinners that is not ...

Just because we moderns react negatively to the word "draconian" doesn't necessarily mean our connotation is sacrosanct. Once you Enter the Dragon, there is no escape until death do us part. rockin_thefreeworld Apricot Pavillion, Qufu, Shandong P... Read and post comments | Send to a friend

... , Raul Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active." From BBC: Cuban conditions 'remain harsh' Cuba is continuing to violate human rights and is using draconian laws to repress its citizens, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. The communist country's shift from Fidel Castro's leadership to president Raul Castro has not changed conditions ...

... days, making me rather tired, but I won't. I'll show you some pretty pictures from comics instead: Doctor 10.0 is still having fun over in those wacky comics, and is currently getting in a pickle with an Orgon, a Draconian and a Sontaran. As you do. Mike 'Lucifer' (the comic he wrote, he is not the devil) Carey's X-Men run is a jolly good load of fun, and not just because he ...

... of goodwill we really should not wake up on a Monday morning a few minutes late to move the car and find it has been towed away. Nor should we have that warm glow of satisfaction after finding the perfect present cruelly swiped from our faces by the discovery of a parking ticket when we retrn to our vehicles. Town halls should give us all a Christmas present with less draconian parking rules.

... for companies and content creators to adjust their business models -- but that he's afraid the draconian punishment schemes are basically a PR nightmare for WIPO's continuing fruitless ... that it's "bad" to do something that obviously can be done quite easily. So, yes, Gurry is correct that draconian punishment has created a massive PR backlash that has helped make things ...

Note: This is a Hypothesis. Facebook Connect is if anything else extremely convenient. It provides the functionality of OpenID and allows you to comment on, interact with and engage on password protected sites by using your pre-existing Facebook profile. Why would Facebook offer such a convenient service? What do they have to gain? Facebook is the Wikipedia of people. It's become a ...

... fourth-largest business research company, trailing only Thomson-Reuters, Bloomberg and Nielsen. One area of market data in which Chief Executive Martin Sorrell has taken a particular interest is that regarding cost cutting by large marketers around the globe. He warned the recent Ad-Tech conference in New York about the long-term results of today's draconian cuts in marketing-service budgets.

Caption this ... Sir M: And then ... Christiana ... I told them, 'look ... if you don't spend your (bleepin') money on Advertising how the (bleep) can you expect things to turn around for you when the market actually does get going' ... so you see Dear ... I am trying ... very hard! to keep my revenues up! ... C: Marty ... you know it won't set well with me if my shopping ...

My friends, Harry Reid is intent on pulling a Nancy Pelosi on healthcare legislation, and WE MUST STOP HIM! Read all about it today at Columbia Conservative Examiner. Please, my fellow citizens, get out there tomorrow and attend one of the rallies of the Million Med March in order to show Reid and Pelosi that citizens and their doctors OPPOSE this tyrannical act!