IT Outsourcing on a Cruise Ship 3 miles off LA to avoid H1B regs

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10959

What if you could outsource to a company that offered the cost savings of an India-based outsourcing firm, but whose facilities were just a few hours away?

That’s the premise of three entrepreneurs in San Diego, who are in the final throes of launching a company that will offer software development off the coast of California—three miles outside Los Angeles, to be specific.

The three plan to buy a used cruise ship and station it close enough for a half-hour water taxi ride to shore, but far enough to avoid H1B jurisdiction. According to CEO David Cook, who was a tanker ship captain before going into IT ten years ago, project pricing “will be comparable to a distant-shore firm.”

By stationing the ship in international waters, the company, called SeaCode, will be able to remain close to U.S. clients while picking and choosing IT talent from around the world—something that tightening H1B visa requirements have made difficult in the U.S.

F*c*ers - can we order up 1 of those 46 foot waves to swamp the computer equipment?

[chicagojoe]

1. Americans fucking other Americans.

Business the American way.

[TWiley]

5. I prefer to call it conservative republicanism.

Weather or not they can be considered Americans is debatable.

Having a boat is one thing, getting people to live / work on it is another.

[UdoKier]

2. Isn't violating the spirit of the law as bad as violating the letter?

Is there no case here?

[FloridaPat]

3. As far as I know there is no tightening of H1B for programmers. Just

ask any American programmer looking for a job - like me. A lot of the projects I was on last year had a ton of Indians on them The number of H1B's was raised to very high heights for the Y2K programming jobs and congress did not drop them.

And more good news for us programmers. I get emails from companies in Russia offering to code for $15 an hour.

[benburch]

4. I say we sink it.

Go out at night in a zodiac boat and drill it full of holes.

[KlatooBNikto]

6. I can visualize a used aircraft carrier like the Yorktown at Charleston

being used as a floating platform by all corporations to avoid paying taxes and to hire people from India without needing H1 Visas. As this operation reached its logical conclusion, another corporation will build floating luxury platforms that will do all the work for our corporations while fleecing Americans for cruises in the Caribbean.

No taxes, low wages, no benefits. I feel like going on a cruise to relieve my headache.