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Another example of Quebec being a totalitarian regime. A bit different from some others in this world though. A place where one can increase funding for a language Gestapo, who fines restaurant owners who don't properly translate pasta in their menu, while cutting social spending. All for the benefit of the residents. Go Quebec!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quebec's case is rather their laws regarding contests, lotteries etc. Basically any contest from outside Canada won't give a damn about working all of those rules in (if it's even possible at all), so they are simply banned from essentially all international competitions of this kind :)
Since the competition is being held by a company outside of Quebec, do they need to abide to these laws at all?
Another example of Quebec being a totalitarian regime. A bit different from some others in this world though. A place where one can increase funding for a language Gestapo, who fines restaurant owners who don't properly translate pasta in their menu, while cutting social spending. All for the benefit of the residents. Go Quebec!
Better post the French translation of this rant soon, or suffer the consequences :)
"Viva Quebec!"
That's probably why.
Quebec has weird laws about competitions. ( http://www.advertisinglawyer.ca/advertising.htm ) ( http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes... )
I was humorously assuming it was because almost all programming languages have key words in English. The Imp of the Recursive in my head was imagining an alternate programming culture like a Quebec version of steam-punk.
This was in a university-level intro to programming class...
USA corporations, including Google, have restrictions on paying money to residents of certain countries such as Cuba and Syria. Tough luck.
> The Contest is void in Cuba, Quebec, Saudi Arabia and Syria > and where prohibited by law. Individuals and entities > restricted by applicable export controls and sanctions > programs are ineligible to participate in the Contest Some could perhaps be explained by export restrictions on crypto code, although I would expect to see some other countries (Iran) banned if that were the case. Quebec has rather stringent d…
I remembered several years ago Iranian was also banned from the competition, but after sometimes they allowed Iranian, but I think they don't give prize in the case of winning.
Anyway I prefer Github, Google is not the cool company they used to be, now most of their products look like stripped-down copies of others.
#ifndef HUMOR
#def HUMOR
I think we on the "Evil Axis" should have our own code hosting platform.
Possible URL: http://evilhub.com
I'm thinking in projects like:
ak47-assembler
missile-launcher
dropbomb
spy-detector
nuclear-cad
whitehouse-boom-boom
familyguy-downloader (we love stewie too)
#endif
Quebec has weird laws about competitions. ( http://www.advertisinglawyer.ca/advertising.htm ) ( http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes... )
As Eastern European I am a little bit satisfied that even reasonable Canadians do stupid things. Still I hope they will reconsider this law.
In our legislation, if you are making a contest with the intent of giving away more than CAD$2000, you must get a licence from them[1]. Many companies just don't want to get their head in this.
The main reasoning behind this is to keep track of the contests and make sure that no one is trying to scam you.
[1] http://www.canlii.org/en/qc/laws/regu/rrq-c-l-6-r-6/latest/r...