Every corporation has a board of directors. You're right, if you have the cash to go this alone, you're golden. If you don't then you'll be looking for cofounders and investors and will like have < 50% equity (and voting rights). i.e. everything is just as it should be and you can be controlled/fired/whatever just like any other founder in this situation.
Yes, anyone (barring odd things like maybe felons?) can form a corporation in the US. But without a status like H1B you cannot work for that corporation in the US.
You just need to show that you will report to a board of directors that has the ability to control what you work on or whether or not to continue to employ you (this really isn't too far off from anyone else starting a company with cofounders and investors).
For TN you could possibly do management consultant. These have been notoriously tricky and lots of horror stories. There isn't anything strictly marketing related.
H1B is possible. It's so far shaping up to be like last year where the cap isn't met until January next year. So plenty of time to score an H1B. 21600 out of 65000 have been approved as of 07/22/2011.
$10k is plain wrong. It's $2500 for the application (paid to the gov't) and decent lawyers typically charge $2500. Greencards on the other hand are much more expensive, $15k-$20k.
There are startups willing to go through the troubles of H1B sponsorship. Engineers are in demand and the (typically) $5k it costs is a small number when signing bonuses can be much higher. There have been periods where this was a timing problem, and a small gamble, but the past couple years and this year there has been a significant drop in applicants. What this means is that your H1B is all but assured if you're qualified.
AWS regions and what Google is using are common to many service providers. These are typical peering locations. Google does have the benefit of having caches local to various ISPs.
A CNAME points a name to another name. In the case of Cloudflare, Google, or others, they need to know what CNAME you are using (say, www.example.com CNAME some.proxyservice.com) so they can map the request to your content.
No seriously. Excellent stunt for getting out of a crazy credit card bill from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Didn't we see this movie before? What was it.. Fight Club?
"Philosophy, as it's taught in universities is not practical." There is plenty of practical philosophy. A healthy dose of theory of computation, or possibly business ethics, would have immediate utility for a lot of people here.
"Rather than aim for the abstract ideas such as Descartes" We study the ideas from people such as Descartes to analyze their methods. Btw, he had many early-scientific writings.
"we should aim to teach things that relieve suffering in our daily lives, such as emotional mastery, and mental discipline" no, maybe, yes.
... etc
"There are a lot of people with psychological problems in this world." Now you're just getting batshit.