The useless internet

When my battery died a couple weeks ago (after I left my lights on while going to a 'double feature' at the Oakwood) the radio has this stupid anti-theft code. My car is 12 years old, and the radio and speakers really are a POS. So I thought it would be simple enough to just look up what the code was or how to figure it out. There was one website on the whole internet that actually dealt with my question, and all they did was suggest that you call Hyundai. What's the point of the internet if you have to call someone to answer a question. So I called them up, they were very friendly and I didn't even have to wait on hold. I had to press a bunch of buttons to give her the code thing and then she told me what to type in. All in all it went well.

I'm supposed to be typing my Hobbes paper right now, talking about what he would think about the new Iraqi constitution, and I think the paper should be interesting. I really like Hobbes, he was very smart and I like the way his logic works. I think the one sentence summary that we get of the great political philosophers hardly do them justice at all. Here they are: Machiavelli said the ends justify the means (he never actually used this phrase, it was 'What the act accuses, the end excuses' and that was , Hobbes said humans are inherently bad and Locke said they're inherently good. What they don't say is that Machiavelli was very playful and The Prince is very misleading. Hobbes may have a dim view of humanity, but it is his reasoning that is the foundation for Liberalism today. I haven't read Locke yet, but I'm willing to bet that there is more to his philosophy than just that. Well, I may write more aboput him later.