[Poohbah]

Actually, if you ended H-1B visas, the coding jobs would simply leave America altogether. What do you do then?

Forbid visitors from bringing ZIP disks and CD-ROMs?

Cut all connections to routers and hosts outside the boundaries of the United States?

[Jhoffa_]

Cut all connections to routers and hosts outside the boundaries of the United States?

Exactly..

They way applications are written now, in colaborative form makes simply yanking the visas a non-starter.. Doesn't it?

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I suppose you're right. Here's the kicker...looking on that list o' french companies to boycott, there seems to be more than a few of them that have operations here in the US, employ Americans, and add companies like BMW, Mercedes, and Philips into the mix...all of whom employ expensive American and European labor, and yet, get this...at the same time actually earn money!! And keep your pants on, because here's the good part...these companies can do all of this yet good old fashioned American companies have to cry to Uncle Sugar for more H1B's and then run off to Bangladesh for the groundbreaking for the latest design center...at some point you have to wonder why US executives suck so much, and maybe they and all their millions should be the ones outsourced to a guy in Calcutta who could do a better job for 5 cents on the dollar.

As much as I detest the frogs, Michelin is here in the US and employing American workers, as is Philips, and Thompson Electric, and BMW, and Nissan, and Toyota...what's going on here?