Chile and Uruguay, while located in South America, are on-par with west European countries regarding corruption. You should reformulate your phrase to something like "as corrupt as many in South America".

I sounds like Defaul Logic

I hope Perelman will be able to afford better food than bread and cheese now.

a race condition!

According to the theories developed by Tessa Wendel, once you are traveling faster than the speed of light the nature of gravity changes from attraction to repulsion. This means that a spaceship traveling that fast would be effectively shielded from small objects by the gravitational force.

... and that's why they hacked the emails of those human right activists?

Philip Dick has been dead for more than 20 years, time for his family to stop parasitizing on his success.

For me anything bigger than 13' isn't portable, but "transportable".

While in general it is true that companies apply the rule 1 Dollar = 1 Euro when selling items in Europe, you must not forget that in Europe (Germany for instance) prices are always with the 19% Tax included, while in America you need to add it to the given price.