HsiaLin
August 12th, 2002, 08:38 PM
· You think of your receiver and TV as a card testing unit
· Your kid yells down the stairs "Dave's hashing your new file Dad"
· You talk to more people on the forums than real life
· Your'e an American and know Canada has a charter instead of a
Constitution
· You work hard to get "TV working" then can't wait for it to go down
so you have something to do
· For your wedding anniversary you bought your wife a Detonator XP
· Instead of putting money in your kids college fund, you put it in the
Legal Rights donations account
· If you wake up at your computer with a card in your hand and one
still unlooping in your loader
· If there are more dishes in your yard than trees
· If, when someone asks, you reply: "that computer next to my TV is
making sure the signal is strong"
· If the salesman at Circuit City sees you coming and calls the manager
· If you count all your valid Hu's at least once a week
· If your best friend calls you at 3:00 am and says He ain't got TV
· Your friend email you at work to call him at Ext. 745
· Your friends are instructed by an on-screen message to dial ext 721,
ext 711, ext 732 but instead they dial your number
· You explain things like "hashing" or "cmd 82" to your wife/girlfriend
when you know that they will never understand
· You’ve single-handedly managed to subvert the best efforts of a large
US based satellite provider
· If your wife has to tell you she's using the "guide", cause when the
TV goes silent, you think you got hashed
· If you have 10 brand new RCA receivers and 1 HU card
· If you interrupt your wife's favorite Television program to test a
card
· If half the icons on your desktop are DSS related
· If you total the amount of time and hardware costs you have in this
hobby and average it out to be equal to paying $2,000 a month for cable
· Your wife wakes you up from a nightmare, and your'e screaming, F**K
YOU DAVE!!!!!!!
· Your heart skips a beat every time there is a delay when changing a
channel!
· You own all 4 versions of the same unlooper
· You get up early for work to see if Dave put in an overnight hash
· You go to move into an apartment and refuse to sign a lease on a unit
that doesn't have a South West sky viewpoint
· You try to watch every NFL game on Sunday and consequently don't
watch any because you are too busy flipping thru them to not miss anything
· You loop a card on purpose, just to fix it
· You spend more time in the chat rooms than your teenage daughter
· You have to explain to your kids that Eeprom is not a dance that they
go to after they graduate
· Your buddy is hosting a Friday UFC match and you bring 2 3m's and an
activation just to cover your bases
· Every time someone asks, "what do you do to make it work" their next
question is always "how did you learn all this sh*t"
· You have sleepless night thinking about the stress P4 is going to
cause and love it
· If you have 20 real good friends, and you've only met five of them
· If you test 8 scripts in one afternoon and forget which one is on the
working card
· Every time you go out you can't wait to get back home and check the
boards
· You know who the Real King is
· You know when things are screwed the are FF'ed
· You constantly looking ways to improve (Screw) up your current
working setup
· Your conversation with your "sat" buddy always more than one hour
long
· If you had trouble sleeping mostly every night until the HU unlooper
came out
· The worst day of your life was when you left a card in a shirt pocket
and your wife tells you it's in the laundry
· Some of your cards are "favorite" cards
· Someone says they are gonna get AOL and you immediately ask "why?
What’s he done to you?"
· If the first time you successfully unlooped a HU you almost cried and
then gave the wife a high five
· You know Pitou is not someone spitting
· If you have over 100 HU bins
· If you have a database containing all your relatives card numbers,
IRD numbers, bins, current scripts, and where their equipment is in their
house
· You know RAM9999 isn't Dodge's newest truck
· You finally found Kryptonite and stayed up all night playing with it
*compiled from an oldtimer :)
· Your kid yells down the stairs "Dave's hashing your new file Dad"
· You talk to more people on the forums than real life
· Your'e an American and know Canada has a charter instead of a
Constitution
· You work hard to get "TV working" then can't wait for it to go down
so you have something to do
· For your wedding anniversary you bought your wife a Detonator XP
· Instead of putting money in your kids college fund, you put it in the
Legal Rights donations account
· If you wake up at your computer with a card in your hand and one
still unlooping in your loader
· If there are more dishes in your yard than trees
· If, when someone asks, you reply: "that computer next to my TV is
making sure the signal is strong"
· If the salesman at Circuit City sees you coming and calls the manager
· If you count all your valid Hu's at least once a week
· If your best friend calls you at 3:00 am and says He ain't got TV
· Your friend email you at work to call him at Ext. 745
· Your friends are instructed by an on-screen message to dial ext 721,
ext 711, ext 732 but instead they dial your number
· You explain things like "hashing" or "cmd 82" to your wife/girlfriend
when you know that they will never understand
· You’ve single-handedly managed to subvert the best efforts of a large
US based satellite provider
· If your wife has to tell you she's using the "guide", cause when the
TV goes silent, you think you got hashed
· If you have 10 brand new RCA receivers and 1 HU card
· If you interrupt your wife's favorite Television program to test a
card
· If half the icons on your desktop are DSS related
· If you total the amount of time and hardware costs you have in this
hobby and average it out to be equal to paying $2,000 a month for cable
· Your wife wakes you up from a nightmare, and your'e screaming, F**K
YOU DAVE!!!!!!!
· Your heart skips a beat every time there is a delay when changing a
channel!
· You own all 4 versions of the same unlooper
· You get up early for work to see if Dave put in an overnight hash
· You go to move into an apartment and refuse to sign a lease on a unit
that doesn't have a South West sky viewpoint
· You try to watch every NFL game on Sunday and consequently don't
watch any because you are too busy flipping thru them to not miss anything
· You loop a card on purpose, just to fix it
· You spend more time in the chat rooms than your teenage daughter
· You have to explain to your kids that Eeprom is not a dance that they
go to after they graduate
· Your buddy is hosting a Friday UFC match and you bring 2 3m's and an
activation just to cover your bases
· Every time someone asks, "what do you do to make it work" their next
question is always "how did you learn all this sh*t"
· You have sleepless night thinking about the stress P4 is going to
cause and love it
· If you have 20 real good friends, and you've only met five of them
· If you test 8 scripts in one afternoon and forget which one is on the
working card
· Every time you go out you can't wait to get back home and check the
boards
· You know who the Real King is
· You know when things are screwed the are FF'ed
· You constantly looking ways to improve (Screw) up your current
working setup
· Your conversation with your "sat" buddy always more than one hour
long
· If you had trouble sleeping mostly every night until the HU unlooper
came out
· The worst day of your life was when you left a card in a shirt pocket
and your wife tells you it's in the laundry
· Some of your cards are "favorite" cards
· Someone says they are gonna get AOL and you immediately ask "why?
What’s he done to you?"
· If the first time you successfully unlooped a HU you almost cried and
then gave the wife a high five
· You know Pitou is not someone spitting
· If you have over 100 HU bins
· If you have a database containing all your relatives card numbers,
IRD numbers, bins, current scripts, and where their equipment is in their
house
· You know RAM9999 isn't Dodge's newest truck
· You finally found Kryptonite and stayed up all night playing with it
*compiled from an oldtimer :)