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    DISH Hacked - Websites are BACK ONLINE!

    I trust you realize that the costs of printing and mailing paper bills are merely part of the "cost of business" that is passed on to all of us...? You can still pay manually on-line on the date you choose. Unless your real motive is to support the USPS then I suggest you switch to electronic...
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    DISH Hacked - Websites are BACK ONLINE!

    I got an e-mailed past due notice yesterday, on the evening of the day my payment was due. No $hit Einstein, I'd been trying to pay online (like I always do, several days ahead of the due date) for a couple of days with the usual site reporting that is was OOS. In that past due notice there...
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    Any hope for a return of ATTSN?

    My apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere but a quick search didn't turn up anything. Dish removed ATTSN, my RSN (channel 428), from my line-up in central PA. This channel carried Penguins and Pirates games amongst other content. I read there was a dispute and the channel was removed...
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    Celebrating 15 Years!

    Congrats Scott! I think I've been around for about a decade...wow how that time has flown...we must all be having a great time! It was a pleasure meeting you and Eva in Hartford a few years back...and I enjoyed the tour of "SatGuys Command Central"! Keep up the great work...you can count on...
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    Cold front in the theoretical place of eternal damnation

    In my GMC truck I was able to program over the channel numbers with text, so "SXM 26" became "Classic V" (limit on the number of characters). Tedious but worth the effort to "name" all 25 presets I assigned. Does Subaru allow something similar? Sent from my LG-E980 using the SatelliteGuys app!
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    Intermittent signal...is it equipment or the service?

    Hi all. I hope I'm not asking a question that was already answered, but a quick search didn't turn up anything. My only experience with SXM is with my '14 Sierra...and the Android app that comes with the subscription. For 3+ years it worked flawlessly. Recently I started experiencing a...
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    Colloquialisms

    "Go redd-up your room!", as in clean up - spoken to me many times by my Mom in my childhood home in western PA...
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    Legendary Broadcaster Keith Jackson Dies at age 89

    Wow...thanks for those memories! I forgot about Frank Broyles. I remember him pronouncing it "Hoishell Walker"...
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    Legendary Broadcaster Keith Jackson Dies at age 89

    If memory serves Keith Jackson was behind the mike when Penn State beat Georgia to win their 1st Championship in the 82/83 Sugar Bowl. I didn't hear that broadcast live...I was in the stadium...but I think I remember him on the recording we made. Trouble was...the guy who made the tape forgot...
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    Font sizes

    Yeah, the editor should cancel-out all caps "shouting" as well...
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    To Serve Man

    I was watching as well...brought back some memories...
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    Your Favorite Toy from Christmases past?

    Yep...I really wanted that thing...and "Santa" came through! I think it sold for $25 back in the day. I was very careful with my toys, kept them clean and in the box. I have no idea what happened to it...I think it was lost in one of many "Mom purges". I found one on eBay a few years back...
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    Your Favorite Toy from Christmases past?

    Mine was Astro Base...by Ideal...also 1960...
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    Snacks...

    I had to give those up...I deal with entirely too many of them at work every day...!
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    What was your first sports memory?

    Yeah, THAT brings back memories...I was Dad's remote control...lol...!