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Well, in this case the road was "clear" as the snow did melt immediately (road was till to warm) nevertheless the risk of "ice" here and there was given. Imagine snow melting and freezing a few yards further again.

I'm all too familiar with that, having grown up in snow. We called that slick ice that results from melting and refreezing "black ice." It was especially bad in areas with wind blowing snow over the road, as that snow would obscure the ice.

Lane detection on a highway is easy as you have a barrier on one side and poles on the other, actually you have poles on both sides.

Ah. Many of our highways here lack barriers and poles, instead just using large grassy areas to divide the highway from the surrounding environment, such as this. Those same highways can be up to 3 lanes wide. I've driven on I-94 (recently the site of a 90-car pileup) in conditions where drivers created 2 lanes out of the 3 that exist, because there wasn't any real reference to go by to find the lanes.

I recently went to a doctor, and talked with her at length about the HPV virus and cervical cancer. The doctor kind of rolled her eyes and was annoyed at the whole thing, since very few cases of HPV lead to cervical cancer, and that it's all a big scare tactic by the drug manufacture to pimp their latest greatest vaccine. In short all the commercials and alarmist media coverage, just feed into their campaign to get girls vaccinated for a very small threat. In fact, it only vaccinates against a few strains and is causing some nasty side effects in some people.

Since nobody seems to have anything other than the usual paranoid theories, perhaps some facts are in order.

This stash of documents (tens of thousands) had been in government possession for a long time. It was also indexed.

A writer (Stephen Hays) at The Weekly Standard has been running a campaign to have them released to the public. At one time, the government was planning on destroying them.

Then, ( congresscritters) asked that they be released, and after some fussing, the release was agreed to.

The idea to release the documents onto the internet is brilliant. It is, in fact, the government recognizing the "Army of Davids" concept and using it. Since the Bush administration has demonstrated almost a total lack of ability to defend itself against even the most ludicrous of charges, this represents a rare instance where they have done something smart - put out the raw source material and let anyone on the internet translate and interpret it - with blogspace functioning as quality control if controversial documents are found (such as a couple already translated showing ties (fairly weak) between the Saddam regime and Al Qaeda.

One would hope that the internet and blogger community would welcome this for what it is: the US government recognizing the power of blogspace and the net, unorganized and ad hoc, to do useful information processing. Also, importantly, one would expect the openness shown here to be applauded - the "cursory readings" are hardly enough to ferret out all documents that might be either damaging or helpful to the administration.

Not funny, and I quote:

"a borderline terrorist threat depending on what someone interprets it to mean."

/struggling to keep a straight face.