Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
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Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#2> 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 data privacy laws - perhaps these are not compatible with Google's personal data storage policy.
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#3Quebec has weird laws about competitions.
(http://www.advertisinglawyer.ca/advertising.htm)
(http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes...)
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#4Quebec 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.
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#5Those crazy Quebecois are going to use the knowledge learned to nuke Toronto!
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#6USA corporations, including Google, have restrictions on paying money to residents of certain countries such as Cuba and Syria. Tough luck.
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#7> 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…
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 :)
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#8Quebec 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.
I'm imagining a preprocessor now that requires you to prefix all language keywords with their French equivalents in a larger font.
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#9> 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…
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?
Re: Why aren't Cubans, Quebecois, Saudis, Syrians allowed in Google Code Jam
#10Quebec 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.