Hey Wetkarma!  Glad you made it over to TnT.

Thank you. Although since I had a comment deleted this morning (I think), I'm not sure if I intend to stick around. ;)

As to the topic at hand:

Indeed.  I think they should get rid of all taxes for expats.  In fact, I think a better ideas is they should give money to expats.  I'm gonna write my congressman! :)

As an expat-to-be myself, I say go for it. Although the last time I wrote my congressman not only did my letter go unacknowledged, I got the distinct impression that he would be of no use to me on the issue in question (ironically an immigration related matter which is somewhat related to my censored comment).

Memory is a strange bell, jubilee and knell.

Wetkarma::
I didn't agree with your missing post. In fact, I often don't agree with what you say (and I use the reply feature when that happens, and I have something to say about it). Be that as it may, I just wanted to let you know that I too, am not happy that posts go missing. My theory is that there's something going on with the way posts are modded/rated, and that you should stick around and help the site get better, not take your ball and go home.

Of course, I'm certainly not going to beg you to stay, but I do think it's better to have civil disagreement on a site like this than a whole bunch of people agreeing boisterously.

{ k }

I lost some posts, and the reason was a silly mistake.  I had teh spell checker checked off and it made my post Preview only and not post.  When I uncheck the spell checker, it allowed me to post a comment.  Maybe this caused the missing posts?  

Maybe that's what happened to some of my replies(and that's something we should look at changing - make it glaringly obvious that a comment was not posted), but not this one (which is too bad, IMHO).

Just one of the things which I look forward to helping resolve in this brave new world of NDTs (non-dumptruck tubes),
{ k }

PS - I can't recommend the new Mozilla enough! It catches "teh" things without needing the TnT spell checker. That I don't have it at work is a source of great distress, and it's only a few days old!!!

I triied to post a reply to someone's comment and it was not posted because the subject line was too long.  It added RE: before the previous poster's subject making it too long.   I changed the subject and replied and it filed fine.  I have only been visiting a few days but I already see a few areas where there are glitches.  

As far as the "teh" thing, I am the world's biggest culprit of that.  Nine times out of ten I misspell "the."

Erk, and now I'm a tad embarassed. The idea that I would quit and take my ball (FIFA approved dontcha know) home was meant to be more snark than real bemoaning. Somehow ;) doesn't quite convey the subtlety I intended.

In any event I appreciate the sentiment behind your comment and fully agree with the merits of civil disagreement.

Memory is a strange bell, jubilee and knell.

Somehow ;) doesn't quite convey the subtlety I intended.

And looking at the links from the subqueue I have determined I will from now on use "~" prior to my sarcastic/ironic statements, as Demosthenes of Plastic once suggested.

~Peace out,
{ k }

Yeah, definitely stick around for a bit.  From what I understand, posts aren't deleted unless they're obvious trolls (like the user-stalker crap we had at plastic).  It must have been something to do with the modding...this site is still a work in progress. :)

Posts aren't supposed to be able to be deleted, but there have been some issues with the software that are being worked on; it certainly isn't a permanent thing. The administration isn't deleting any posts - if yours disappeared, it's due to the bugs. Please stick around - we want all the voices from the old Plastic here.