The message of "A.I". is clear: little David might have been happier if he had abandoned his impossible dream of becoming a "real," "natural" human being -- if only he'd settled, as most of us do, for being a reasonable facsimile.
So "Civilisation" has been worthwhile for bringing us a reasonable facsimile of the great works of man – a civilised man.
Ron Weathers, Foreman's adviser, said that while Foreman would receive less than the $2- to $2.5 million he was to get for fighting Damiani, the $1.2- to $1.6 million for boxing Halstead, or a reasonable facsimile, likely would satisfy him.
"The House of Mirth", with Gillian Anderson, star of "The X Files", a TV series, playing the tragic heroine, is set in late-19th-century New York, for which, apparently, Glasgow is a reasonable facsimile.
43; Garrett Richards; SP; R/R; 27; The closest thing the Angels have to an ace, he'll need to be a reasonable facsimile for them to have success.
The patent describes using actual recorded audio from an off-site database where possible to achieve as natural a reading as possible, and there's even a provision whereby, with permission from those involved, an iPhone could record speech from contacts on phone calls and use that technique to produce a reasonable facsimile of their voice for TTS use.
For example, in the image above, the team drew a reasonable facsimile of the Facebook password field over the real password field for the app.
As much as anyone wants to look his or her best in a photograph we want the resultant picture to be a reasonable facsimile of the subject, preserving it for the future.
More importantly, it ought to be a rule that any community that is as un-diverse as the Burning Man community be prohibited from styling itself as a reasonable facsimile of a workable alternative model for society.
