What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!

[Araksardet]

Putting aside the dubious notion that nations contribute anything to the world beyond what individuals from those nations contribute...

Well, Canada gave the gaming world BioWare, Relic and Ubisoft, among several others. We gave the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (mostly), maple syrup (shut up, Vermont), the victory at Juno Beach in 1944, the only people capable of reliably defeating the Russians/Soviets in ice sports, Robin on How I Met Your Mother, a ready-made example for American progressives to point to in many things, and everything listed on the internet under "Canadian inventions" and similar, such as this:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/things/

Which apparently includes the pacemaker, Java, hydrofoil boats, the zipper, and the paint roller.

 

[Dreamfiller]

Finland gave the world Sauna, mämmi( if someone would ever eat it ),And our country wetted Stalins pants >:O

And Angry birds :>

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I'll just drop this here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_inventions

 

[RadiusXd]

Eh...the people who invented the first aeroplane is up for debate, but the Wright brothers were the ones who invented one they got people with money to take seriously.

Oh...Australia came together in 1901 peacefully and without bloodshed, making an entire continent into a single nation. Meaning that's a continents worth of seperate nations whose names and capital cities they don't make you remember at school.

peacefully and without bloodshed? I hardly think so.
we abused the fuck out of the native peoples of Australia.
not something I feel the need to apologize for seeing as I wasn't responsible, but the last thing I expect anyone to believe is that my country started with one big, happy and indefinite slumber party.

 

[Comieman]

Russia - Oil, wheat, caviar, fish, weapons (please ignore the fact that most of weapons go to terrorists for time being ^_^ )
I say vodka, but best vodka comes from Poland or Sweden

And also a crapton of scientists who expanded world's knowledge in technology, medicine, rocket science, physics, pretty much most fields of science.

 

[Saulkar]

It's nice to see that no one in this thread is even the SLIGHTEST bit arrogant.

Ha! My comment is not! Your argument is void!

Spoiler: I am just so Damn Happy that I could just...

 

[MrJKapowey]

USA invented the very machine you're typing on...so.......

What, you gave us computers? The first 'electronic digital programmable computers' were the Colossi - from Bletchley Park.

Britain:

- Football hooligans
- Fable (L.C., II, III)
- Runescape
- Crackdown
- The Bren Gun (yay!)
- ARM processor
- RSA cipher

America gave the world Coca-Cola.

You're welcome, world.

- But we gave you carbonated water...
- Sammiches
- Viagra
- D.B. Shotgun
- Tanks
- Sniper rifles
- Bullpup guns
- Fighter aircraft
- The law of gravity
- Oh, and football, rugby, cricket, tennis, badminton, boxing, darts, table tennis, snooker, ping-pong, bowls, modern rock climbing,
- Jet engines
- VTOL
- Submarines
- Scouting movement
- Stamp collecting

 

[TheAmokz]

Nokia. Also, dish draining closet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_draining_closet

 

[DocEvil000]

Actually the only thing I can think of off the top of my head my country (as in direct government action) has done for us is create the internet.

Thank you Russia for making our government do something useful for once with tax dollars.

 

[Merkavar]

the notepad. you know the paper notepad. guess which coontry

 

[loc978]

The US... so,

Spoiler: this

Spoiler: this

Spoiler: and eventually this

Without which modern machinery (and, by extension, all of the first-world conveniences you enjoy) would still be cost-prohibitive to manufacture. You're welcome.

 

[Kielgasten]

Magnetic storage -> recording tapes, and later harddrives and credit cards.
The loudspeaker
Dry batteries
Insulin (you´re welcome America;-)
The Colostomi-bag
Lego
Carlsberg yeast
The Endoscope.

We have also in the past introduced mah axe to yo face ;-)

 

[Tanakh]

There's a reason My country banned that shit, it's bloody dangerous just look at Chernobyl and the more recent disasters in Japan. You think your reactors would do any better if the shit hit the fan.

Well... to be fair nuclear energy has the lowest rate of registered deaths per TWh of all energy sources (http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html). Emphasis on registered, because Chernobyl ain't 100% measured, however without that you are just making wild guesses.

About the disaster in Japan i fail to see how a tsunami that killed 15,597,injured 5,694 and left 4,980 people missing has to do with nuclear energy. Ohh, you mean the 1 death that caused the fukushima plant? Yeahh... they should indeed have planned better; their only excuse is that a tsunami that big has only happened 6 times in 3,000 years of history.

The ban has more to do whit public perception than anything else, most laws that are made to please the public. Take Germany for example, they will shut down all their nuclear plants by 2050, but will be buying nuclear power from France who is building more nuclear plants, and nuclear isotopes from other countries with nuclear plants to be able to produce its nuclear medicines. Is it really their best alternative? Probably not, it will be more expensive and a nuclear accident in France will reach Germany anyway, but keeps people happy.

 

[John the Gamer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_inventions_and_discoveries

A whole bunch.
We 'invented'(discovered) Australia and New Zealand, and also created the microscope, stock markets, multinationals, telescopes, the CD, the compact cassette and photosynthesis. There.

Looking at this makes me wonder; does inventing the stock market and multinationals make us responsible for the economic crisis(plural)? That would suck. Better not tell anyone...Oops.

 

[T5seconds]

Greece was the cradle of western civilizations? Is there something that can top tha- Oh yeah, Egypt for... Everything really...

 

[RadiusXd]

The US... so,

Spoiler: this

Spoiler: this

Spoiler: and eventually this

Without which modern machinery (and, by extension, all of the first-world conveniences you enjoy) would still be cost-prohibitive to manufacture. You're welcome.

but does it blend?

 

[godevit]

Make the whole Arab to hate USA.
I'm from Israel.

 

[Thaluikhain]

peacefully and without bloodshed? I hardly think so.
we abused the fuck out of the native peoples of Australia.
not something I feel the need to apologize for seeing as I wasn't responsible, but the last thing I expect anyone to believe is that my country started with one big, happy and indefinite slumber party.

The nation started peacefully, yes. All sorts of things happened before and after that, but that didn't have anything to do with federation, per se.

 

[RadiusXd]

peacefully and without bloodshed? I hardly think so.
we abused the fuck out of the native peoples of Australia.
not something I feel the need to apologize for seeing as I wasn't responsible, but the last thing I expect anyone to believe is that my country started with one big, happy and indefinite slumber party.

The nation started peacefully, yes. All sorts of things happened before and after that, but that didn't have anything to do with federation, per se.

so there wasn't open war? big deal, many still died.

 

[Shirokurou]

Russia saved Europe from the Tatar invasion (by taking one for the team for a few hundred years)
Russia saved Europe in 1812 (except you France)
Saved again in 1945 (Don't pretend the US did it, Berlin was taken by the USSR.

And tons of hot women...