Has America contributed anything towards the world?

No it isn't

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah went to the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City to have successful back surgeries. He has the money to go anywhere he wants, but like other very rich and famous people he came here. He chartered three flights to JFK, arrived with a massive security team and a film crew, and left the airport in a convoy of 40 vehicles, including 20 for luggage alone. He bought an entire wing of the hospital for his own privacy. New York makes a lot of money from medical tourism.

When is the last time a Saudi looked to the NHS for cutting edge, state of the art medical care?

It is crap. Do you know why people go to the USA and other countries? It is because they offer treatments which may be controlled over here due to opposing views on their merits, for example. This doesn't mean the US has better [overall] healthcare. It means they are willing to use treatments that may still be in the testing phase.

Reply 181

Craig_D

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Original post by jumpingjesusholycow

Here's an example of a real guitar:

You're welcome :colonhash:

noobs...

Oh awesome, a fake Les Paul :colonhash:

Just kidding. But I'm hardly a 'noob', I dunno if you're interested by I also have a Les Paul, an SG, an Epiphone Dot, a crappy acoustic that bought half a decade ago, a not very good Peavey that my Dad gave me, as well as the three Strats (only one of which is American made). I just like Stratocasters, their sound suits the style of music that I like. I hate this whole "You don't know anything if you like X brand", I think everyone should just buy what suits them. Clapton, Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Hendrix, they'd all have to be noobs....

Reply 182

Made in the USA

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Original post by alexs2602

It is crap. Do you know why people go to the USA and other countries? It is because they offer treatments which may be controlled over here due to opposing views on their merits, for example. This doesn't mean the US has better [overall] healthcare. It means they are willing to use treatments that may still be in the testing phase.

Not having access to the latest breakthrough/experimental treatments because some bureaucrats are debating the cost vs merit doesn't sound good to me. How many people die because they can't get access to the new treatments that may still be in the testing phase?

Reply 183

alexs2602

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Original post by Made in the USA

Not having access to the latest breakthrough/experimental treatments because some bureaucrats are debating the cost vs merit doesn't sound good to me. How many people die because they can't get access to the new treatments that may still be in the testing phase?

You missed the point. If these treatments are dangerous it'll be worse if a wider population are open to use them. Take thalidomide, it prevented morning sickness in pregnant women but caused birth defects.

Reply 184

69Crazyfists

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Original post by lord snow

You can't invent 1000 years of history and culture. My point is that while america has invented a few things the best things are created through tradition and time. Durham univeristy for example is better than anything america can produce. It may not be ranked as highly as harvard but when you sit in an armchair that is 400 years old chatting to friends, you know you're in a better pace.

It's a shame that you're clearly too dumb to get into Durham.

Anyway you're just trolling, and badly.

Reply 185

Made in the USA

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Original post by Shadowplay

Source? You write so much but all I read is 'blah blah blah we're epic'. I stopped believing what you wrote when you said America invented freedom in another thread. Please give me a comprehensive answer why America contributed more than Europe in the past century. From the view of a citizen of the world, not from the American one. :rolleyes:

Also, read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#Europe

This is socialism in modern Europe. One paragraph, because there is nothing else to write, because there is NO SOCIALISM IN EUROPE. Get some sense into that brainwashed head of yours.

What else do you need to know other than that with 500 million people, the EU is about as productive as our 310 million? The GDPs of the EU and US are very similar. Sounds like most of you are sitting on your backside doing absolutely nothing at all

Reply 186

Made in the USA

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Original post by alexs2602

You missed the point. If these treatments are dangerous it'll be worse if a wider population are open to use them. Take thalidomide, it prevented morning sickness in pregnant women but caused birth defects.

Bad example. Thalidomide was never available in the US.

Reply 187

Belizibub

Original post by domino0806

They didn't even invent burgers, which, as the name suggests, were invented in Germany.

Actually it was invented by the Romans. Hamburgers were the first etc.

Reply 188

alexs2602

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Original post by Made in the USA

Bad example. Thalidomide was never available in the US.

I realise that, it doesn't mean it's a bad example though just because it wasn't available in the US. The point was that medicines and treatment should be well tested which that addressed.

Reply 189

Cornish student

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Original post by erklam

here is my contribution

Just a few American inventors for you (I assume you have no clue what they invented, so use google):
Edison, Morse, Bell, Singer, Eastman, Goodyear, Tesla, Westinghouse

Tesla was serbian :confused:

Not to say the other inventors didnt do great things though :biggrin:

Reply 190

Allie - 23

Original post by lord snow

I was thinking about all the good things in the world and I realized that they were all British and to be more specific English. The Oxford English Dictionary, the officers of the British army and navy, the liberal political system, g and t, steak and wine. America has contributed nothing useful, just **** we don't need like mcdonalds and adverts.

we put a man on the moon
helped to win both world wars
invented facebook, cars, aviation, electric guitars, email, jeans, lasers, nuclear weapons, PC's, tasers, air conditioning, etc . . .

discovered the big bang theory, chloroform, animal cloning, CD's, earthquake scale, artificial hearts, electrp magnet etc . . .

its easy to think of your own countries success. Reversly, I probably couldnt name many specific Brittish successes but that doesnt mean that they do not exist.

Reply 191

alexs2602

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Original post by Allie - 23

we put a man on the moon
helped to win both world wars
invented facebook, cars, aviation, electric guitars, email, jeans, lasers, nuclear weapons, PC's, tasers, air conditioning, etc . . .

discovered the big bang theory, chloroform, animal cloning, CD's, earthquake scale, artificial hearts, electrp magnet etc . . .

its easy to think of your own countries success. Reversly, I probably couldnt name many specific Brittish successes but that doesnt mean that they do not exist.

Earthquake scale? That's misleading, I assume you're referring to the Richter scale. Unfortunately that isn't used by seismologists anymore. Moment Magnitude Scale(MMS) is and that was invented by a Canadian scientist and a Japanese scientist .

The modern version of the car was invented by the Germans.

Animal cloning is disputed as it was not confirmed.

A British scientist invented the electromagnet but an American popularised it.

The Big Bang theory was invented by a Belgian.

Chloroform was discovered independently by three separate people - two Frenchmen and one American. Credited to the American due to the date he published his findings.

The CD was developed by Sony and Philips. Japanese and Dutch companies respectively.

You can have the rest.

Also what do you mean by aviation? That's ambiguous

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Reply 192

robbierobot

Didn't the Americans invent the basis of the Internet following which Sir Tim bought the WWW into existence?

Without the Internet you wouldn't have this forum.

Reply 193

Shadowplay

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Original post by Made in the USA

What else do you need to know other than that with 500 million people, the EU is about as productive as our 310 million? The GDPs of the EU and US are very similar. Sounds like most of you are sitting on your backside doing absolutely nothing at all

Americans are workaholics, that doesn't mean the rest of the world is sitting on its backside, it just means that Americans prefer to have loads of money to life. :wink:

You don't even have holidays long enough to travel properly. I'm a traveller so I met loaaaaaads of Americans who told me this.

Reply 194

erklam

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Original post by Cornish student

Tesla was serbian :confused:

Not to say the other inventors didnt do great things though :biggrin:

Tesla was indeed Serbian but out of his 146 patents, 112 were registered in the U.S. And the thread is about what America has contributed to the world, not what Americans have.

And you must be joking when you say that the other inventors didn't "do great things".

Reply 195

erklam

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Original post by Shadowplay

Nikola Tesla was SERBIAN.
Alexander Graham Bell was SCOTTISH.

They're as American as Einstein was.

The fact that they worked in America has to do with the fact that it was just the go-to country at that time. I hate how inventors were fleeing to America because of wars etc and suddenly they're America's greatest contribution. :rolleyes:

Import, you mean. America's greatest import.

We all know that America consists of immigrants and indians. They are all considered Americans. Bell was American, worked there almost all his life, and founded some of the most American companies, such as the predecessor of AT&T.

Also, out of Tesla's 146 patents, 112 were registered in the U.S.

This is the U.S.' contribution. Without the labs and infrastructure they could access in America, they could not have been so productive.

Of course, credit goes to Serbia and Scotland as well and it is indeed important to add the inventors nation of origin! (and yeah, Tesla did not even receive American citizenship as far as I know :redface:

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Reply 196

hunstatham

Original post by Extricated

They've contributed to the world by starting hundreds of bloody wars and killing millions of innocent people, whilst gorging their faces with extra large Mcdonalds BIG MAC meals and spiralling the world into economic downturn.

hmm...

What about:

- The Seven Years War
- The American Revolution
- The Napoleonic Wars
- The War of 1812
- The Crimean War
- Colonial wars in Ashanti and Zulu
- The Boer War
- Both World Wars
- Suez

Didn't the UK start most of these wars? And yes, they all were a long time ago, but most top world powers are belligerent, so why is the US exempt?

Reply 197

Victor-PP

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Original post by Homer_Simpson

+rep

Reply 198

Extricated

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Original post by hunstatham

hmm...

What about:

- The Seven Years War
- The American Revolution
- The Napoleonic Wars
- The War of 1812
- The Crimean War
- Colonial wars in Ashanti and Zulu
- The Boer War
- Both World Wars
- Suez

Didn't the UK start most of these wars? And yes, they all were a long time ago, but most top world powers are belligerent, so why is the US exempt?

What is your point? My point was that America has started a huge range of wars, that doesn't negate the point that Britain has also started some? :confused:

....bit of a mindless rebuttal, don't you think?