allusion

So the Dropbox allusion is just off base.

It's an allusion to Soylent Green, from a much earlier cult sci-fi film.

Is the allusion to "tens of thousands" of files supposed to be convincing?

I think he was joking and making an allusion to a commonly voiced opinion in favor of Samsung from the Apple trial.

"In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

The mathy allusion to Googol is a Google-style nerd-joke, which adds another level of awesomeness.

I'm not defending megaupload for copyright infringement, but your allusion to hypocrisy makes no sense since these people are being denied access to their legal IP.

-- The "ring" must surely be an allusion to the JavaRing, which Jakob Nielsen had, and talked about, in 1998, so in that respect, these already existed when Kurzweil made the prediction.

In allusion to the original, the phrase “A Modest Proposal” is used to introduce suggestions that are satirical, hyperbolic, and sarcastic.

The name "F1" itself is an allusion to "inheriting" some of the properties of Spanner.-- Hierarchical tablesWhat they call hierarchical tables, I would think best be viewed as one-to-many relationships.

Another allusion to the USA maybe WRT having Japan's back?Note if you have the USA play all the parts of WWI then its not much of a WWI anymore, is it?In groups men are by nature irrational not rational, there is nothing inconsistent with the old quote about WWI being impossible because its obviously futile, yet they had a war anyway.