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[Sigh, I am so old...]

I'm relatively certain that's a reference to some rock song or other, but I admit that I can't place it. Could you (or someone) clarify this?

Everlast - Goodbye
http://www.lyricsstyle.com/e/everlast/goodbye.html

Very popular to use that sample in sporting events when a player fouls out. Classic stuff.

-Charles

And the band Lagwagon did their own version from their album Let's Talk About Leftovers

Is it your god-given right to receive free entertainment, at the cost of the filmmakers?

As far as we know, black holes result from the collapse of a star. They don't just "appear" for no reason. The new ones discovered were obscured by their accretion disks and the torus of gas and matter surrounding them

But the problem is that we don't know really much about them. The black holes were discovered first theoretically by studying the consequences of Einstein equations by Karl Schwarzschild around 1915. So "we" (as in "we, humans") knew about the black holes years before the very first empirical confirmations of the Schwarzschild theory (if we take Cygnus X-1 as the first discovery, it's 1972; so the actual observation came over half century after the theoretical prediction!) Obviously, the collapse of a star is the most plausible reason for a black hole to appear in our Universe. But theoretically a Schwarzschild sphere can be present in our Universe for no particular reason - for example, it can be here just because it's a fscked up Universe after all.

"It Was a Good Day"

-HotB

From a legal standpoint, it is fairly clear, The White Stripes copied the lyrics and gave no credit and no royalties to the actual author. What is interesting is the moral or even economic dilemma: The White Stripes almost certainly did nothing to harm the movie Citizen Kane. In fact, they probably inspired some people to watch the movie who otherwise would not have watched it. Economically, the products are non-competing, as one who wants to watch a movie will not susbstitute a song for the movie, and vice versa.

Just curious as to /.ers opinions on the matter.

I belive that this was originally the idea of Tenacious D. You can hear Jack Black sing about it in the song "City Hall".

No it's not, Miss Morissette.

See for yourself.

Hi Richie

I wrote something like a request for someone to dissect that song for me, since I couldn't understand what they were talking about.

On second hand.. maybe they didn't intended to make sense in the first place?

How about "Royal Orleans", which is about John Paul Jones accidentally picking up a transvestite hooker in New Orleans.

I must've missed that part of the Simarillion.