I couldn't find the study earlier, but here is a pretty good writeup of the effect:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html?pagewanted=all

"Willpower turned out to be more than a folk concept or a metaphor. It really was a form of mental energy that could be exhausted. The experiments confirmed the 19th-century notion of willpower being like a muscle that was fatigued with use, a force that could be conserved by avoiding temptation."

I don't disagree that regular exercise of willpower can have positive effects, though.

It's also probably worth noting that impulse control is a resource, and the more you have to use it, the harder it becomes. A person who is poor has to exercise much more self control throughout their daily life ("I can't go visit my friend in the next town because I can't afford gas today" or "I guess it's ramen again tonight"), so it becomes much more difficult to suppress other urges ("I should go to bed... right after I beat this next Angry Birds level... or the next one").

Even a good (large) hospital will have problems dealing with 160 patients admitted simultaneously. Afghanistan's hospitals are hardly stellar (0.4 beds per 1000 people, according to google). It shouldn't be surprising that they don't keep wonderfully accurate records in cases like this.

Cloud-based apps doesn't mean they have to do the equivalent of X-forwarding. In most cases, you can do the majority of the manipulation on the device itself, and only go out to the 'cloud' for opening files, saving them, and checking for updates (or downloading the app each time you run it, as is often the case with javascript apps).

Okay, I totally agree with that.

As long as it's not tested on animals!

That's not really Slashdot truisms, just libertarian truisms (save 3 and 4, perhaps).

The issue isn't whether they fund research - clearly they do. The GP was taking issue with "the only one" part.

Ah yes, because mechanical clocks that are hundreds of years old automatically adjust for leap seconds.

You've never heard of muddying the waters?