That isn't necessarily a net neutrality issue. ISPs block port 25 because idiots run open proxies (or get owned by the latest Bonzi Buddy clone) and spam flows like water over the falls. It's a QoS/abuse issue.

I haven't looked at my ISP contract lately, but I would be surprised if there isn't a clause in there that says "no servers". They'd want you to upgrade to their "business class" service, which is basically the same shitty service with a slightly lower SLA at twice the price.

Everyone in the USA that is an "exempt" employee. There is no law regarding maximum work hours, so nobody offers it as part of the job. If you make that a requirement, you will not get the job. They'll go with someone else.

So, if you tell them that you're not going to work unpaid overtime, and the second week you're working there they tell you you'll be working unpaid overtime or they'll fire you, what then, smart guy?

Unless you're a single-income family of four or five, in which case putting that money aside isn't as easy as you seem to think.

That whole "supply-and-demand" thing is only OK if it works in the favor of the employer. The Invisible Hand doesn't seem to give a shit about in-demand skill sets. The bottom line is that they have the jobs and you need a job, and if they don't give you one, you don't eat. So the playing field isn't level.

When there is an iteration that doesn't sell, that will be the last one. So long as people buy it, they'll keep cranking them out.

Just because the company pays me a salary, doesn't mean they own all of my time.

Actually, it does. At least if you're an "Exempt" employee in the USA. If your employer can fire you for not working at a particular time, then they own that time. There is no rule against an exempt employee being forced to work 24/7. If they say "Work now" and you say "No", you can be fired. Doesn't matter if it's 4 AM on a Sunday, if they say jump, you say how high or you get fired.

Obviously most employers don't take it that far (something about workers being expensive to replace when they drop dead) but they CAN. Without sane regulation (or viable unions. lol socialism) treating your workers like slave labor is fine just so long as you don't PHYSICALLY chain them to their desks.

If you try to be unique, you get corrected. Sometimes, you get corrected out the door. Companies like interchangeable cogs that don't complain. They don't like being in a situation where an employee has power over their own destiny.

And I don't know about you, but I've had a hard time in the past paying my mortgage with "spine".

So if it's not about money, what's it about? The assertion that they cannot find native workers to do the job is bullshit. So if you leave out the skill set, what's left? Money and control. It's not incompetence, it's greed.

And incompetence isn't a myth. Look up the Peter principle.

Let me be clear. What I was saying is that whether or not someone is any good as a developer (or even has the skill set necessary) is a secondary concern regarding the decision to go with an H1-B holder. They are cheaper and easier to abuse, and that's all the bean counters/managers care about. They might technically be able to code in Java, but the code they generate is absolute shit. Management doesn't understand why that's a bad thing, or that there's even quality levels to code. All they know is that at the end of the project, the product mostly works. They don't realize the technical debt they've incurred, or how much labor will be involved in un-fucking the shit code that's been produced.

TL;DR: Cheap > good.

No, it's definitely illegal/against the rules to deliberately pay an H1-B worker less than a native worker in the same position. That doesn't stop anyone from doing it. The program depends on the visa holders to report any wrongdoing; however, I think we all know what would happen should they complain. H1-Bs are considered even more disposable than your average worker, and have a fixed amount of time after being terminated to obtain new employment or face deportation. They keep their mouths shut, and keep getting paid less.

Think about it, why else would a company employ an H1-B? They will scream and cry about a shortage of native workers to fill open positions, but they're full of shit. There are more than enough native workers to fill the positions; there just aren't enough native workers available at the salaries they want to pay. So, in a sense, they're not lying about a shortage, but it's a shortage of their own creation. That, and frequently a company will identify an H1-B they want to hire and write a job description so specific to their skill set that they can claim there aren't any qualified native workers. Which is true; nobody has the exact same skill set as someone else.

H1-B visas exist to exploit foreign workers and put more expensive native employees out of work. Period. It's a giant scam. But, since companies are sociopathic by their very nature, they do whatever it takes to save money.

Eventually you will be caught, fired, and blacklisted. There's nothing that employers hate more than workers improving their situations.

Trouble with that is that those workers get fired for outsourcing their work, while management gets bonuses for reducing payroll.

Do you think the people making the decision to fire the native worker are afraid of that? No, the people getting shot are middle management, and they're almost as disposable as the H1-Bs.

Thinking a big employer cares if you live or die beyond the cost to replace you is insane. Gun ownership is not a deterrent.

Now unless I misunderstand the law. H1-B is supposed to be for jobs Americans can't do.

No, it's for jobs that businesses don't want to pay prevailing wages for. Why pay a native worker $100k and listen to them bitch about "work-life balance" and "not being worked to death", when you can pay an H1-B visa holder $65k and not hear a single complaint?

Tell me how a dept that is and has been doing the work is suddenly unskilled and unable to do the job but is able to train their replacements.

They're suddenly unskilled because some suit figured out that H1-Bs are a lot cheaper and easier to abuse.

Also if these people have the "Skills" why are they being trained by those they displace ?

They're not hired for their technical skills or coding ability. They're hired because they're cheap and easily abused.