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Sigh. This Competition is open to all members of the TopCoder website, who have agreed to the terms thereof, and who are at least 18 years of age. Competitors
by huhsamovar 14y ago
Sigh.
This Competition is open to all members of the TopCoder website, who have agreed to the terms thereof, and who are at least 18 years of age. Competitors must be:
(i) a U.S. citizen,
(ii) a lawful permanent resident of the U.S.,
(iii) a temporary resident, asylee, refugee of the U.S., or have a lawfully issued work authorization card permitting unrestricted employment in the U.S., or
(iv) a non-U.S. resident authorized in the country in which the member resides while participating in this Competition to perform services as an independent contractor.
Oh well.
- IvyMike 14y agoWell if you're not in the US and you're not allowed to perform services for NASA by your home country (clause iv) what would you expect?
- gyom 14y agoI hear you. As a Quebec resident, I've been getting screwed all my life by these restrictions on contests. I don't even know why we're listed there alongside Kim Jong-il, Ahmadinejad and Castro. There's probably some law somewhere that the government of Quebec voted, but I don't know what it is. "A Competitor is not eligible for this Competition if he/she is a resident of the Quebec province of Canada, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan or Syria."
- wlesieutre 14y agohttp://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakes101/f/VoidinQuebec.htm http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakes101/f/VoidinQuebec.h... summarizes it pretty well. The contest laws there make it a lot more work (and more expensive). Especially for sweepstakes where they're just randomly giving away free stuff (rather than competitions like this), it makes more sense to just exclude it instead of dealing with their laws.
- gyom 14y agoThanks a lot for the reference !
- banachtarski 14y agoThis is a government agency we're talking about. Why is this restriction even surprising?
- huhsamovar 14y agoIt's not surprising, it's retarded.
- mkopinsky 14y agoI don't understand this complaint. Why aren't you authorized by your home country to work as an independent contractor?