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You do know he's a 900 year old alien with a Time Machine?
I think if we can accept that, then him being able to influence micro chip technology isn't too big a leap!

Or perhaps it's magic...

I think it's nice when fans independently come to the same conclusion.  

Dodgy science update:

Mechanical clocks being reset by a computer virus? Very clever indeed.

Having watched the show a second time, I can confirm that the Doctor says the virus will affect all the clocks in the world, 'anything with a chip.' That's just not possible. I think he meant anything with a chip which is also networked to a system with an internet connection. So not the radio alarm clock on the bedside table.

These aren't troubled times. All that's happened is that the economy has been exposed as not so much a flimsy house of cards but rather as an illusion.

I read my Prog this morning. Ticking over rather than revving. Judge Dredd's the best thing in it. Zombo's the next best thing. No stinkers. Colin MacNeill's Dredd aside, the artwork was kind of ugly on the whole.

I'd vote for Ambrose based on his record in office. A real man of the people and a solid, upright citizen.

When I vote I tend to think in terms of which candidates are promising to make rich people pay more taxes than poor people, and which are promising to give rich people more money than they have already. I usually find the choice quite easy to make.

Although spoiling your vote may seem like a waste of time one reason for doing so, if you have no preference is that it will be counted- in as far as calculating the number of people who came out to vote...

Had more people made their mark-even by drawing willies on the ballot form, the results of the yes and no votes would have stood....

Oh, the irony. Oh yes.

When I lived in York the council held a referendum on having residents only parking (it follows me wherever I go). I voted no, but 51% of those who voted were in favour of the changes. What annoyed me enormously is that had more than a handful of those who voted no merely not turned out to vote, the result would have been invalid. They couldn't have pushed through their measure without my 'no' vote. The bastards.

I'm glad there are people like you who still give a damn about politics, because I no longer have the energy for it. I was very interested and involved in politics from the age of 13 right up until the 1997 general election, in which I voted for a party other than Labour, such was my disgust at what the Labour Party had become. From that day on my involvement in politics has been minimal, amounting to no more than voting whenever the opportunity arises, and activism against the imposition of Controlled Parking across my whole neighbourhood by the City Council.

The bad guys always win. Don't you know?

I don't think I was all that fussed for his music, to be honest. But he was an innovator, and his influence on pop culture is his legacy.

Was wondering if there was/is a detailed map of Mega City One showing all the sectors. sector houses, grand hall etc. Have been reading since prog 1 and all i can remember is a map that showed you the 3 Mega Cities and one in the Megazine which showed the world view.

Nope. There are at least two maps that show all the sectors, but anything on a finer scale than has to be inferred. There's no point showing where the Sector Houses are. It's enough to presume every sector has one. I don't think we even know which sector the Grand Hall of Justice is in, or other landmarks like the Statue of Judgement.

Then the BBC go and post this picture of the poor bloke.

When I saw that picture I wasn't sure if it was the last picture taken of him when he was still alive, or if it was a "why not judge for yourself?" challenge.

It looks to me as if the American soldiers were in the wrong from the moment they started opening fire on unarmed civilians. Were the AK47s and RPGs real or imaginary? Very possibly imaginary, from what I could see. The people in the van should definitely not have gone in to rescue the wounded - by doing so they just deepened the helicopter crew's conviction they were dealing with insurgents. But what was the right thing to do under the circumstances? The actions of the soldiers confirmed, after the fact, what the men on the ground in the van had been thinking - that the soldiers couldn't be trusted to do the right thing by the wounded man, because they were opening fire on unarmed civilians with lethal intent, and therefore the wounded man needed rescuing from them.

a couple of times he sounded like someone....and its been bugging me until i figred out it was the guy who played the chef on "carry on cruising"

Lance Percival

Tut-tut, Mike Gloady - Mikey got in there first. I'm not even a Christian, but I still like a bit of persecution myself. It makes me feel special. Although I would take career success and a doubling of income in preference, feeling persecuted does at least allow me to feel I'm not entirely the architect of my own misfortune.

Hey look, we're off-topic. We've stopped talking about the BBC altogether at this point.