"Trying to do something without anyone caring that you're doing it."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34jPN...eature=channel

She's definitely got some stones...

I wish US cable/sat co. would carry AlJazeera, but they don't have the guts to do so. I can get AlJazeera if I had a FTA sat system though.

Damn, she's got guts, I like that. She was lucky they were using teargas ... they were in a good mood I guess.

Ahh, it was just teargas.. I suspect most of those reporters just kind of accept that they're highly likely to fall down dead during the report. I question the dude who had the mask on, though..

I was thinking during the report, "Don't any of them have a damn gas mask for that girl?"

then that guy pops up and looks at her, then goes away.

What I was thinking during the report was
Damn wall...

"All in all, its just a brick in the wall."

Dishnetwork carries Al Jazeera. I used to be a contractor for dish. I installed A LOT of international dishes.

Wow, really? English too? Thats a first. Honestly I would have never thought they would. At one point I had a copy of my local Verizon FiOs channel lineup and actually saw Al-Jazeera English listed, (don't remember the channel number), but when I tried that channel it wasn't at all Al-Jazeera English, and then a week or so later they updated the listings again, and it was removed from the list all together.

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Just answered my own question, nope. Arabic only apparently. Makes sense, why should an English speaking person have a different news source? Guess I'll have to learn Arabic (yea right, like I have the time, or the skill to learn another language ), or just stick to the English Al-Jazeera site. *sigh*

I grew up with several people from the mid-east. I played on soccer team from 1st through 6th grades where the coach was from Jersualem, some of the families were from Jordan and Israel. I spent a lot of time at their houses. I can tell you to hurry in arabic (YELLA!), but I remember the food the most. I really miss the food. Fasting during daylight hours made NO SENSE to me when the food was so good.

Looking at the website for Al Jazeera English, you can pay $6 a month to have it streamed to your PC. Also FTA systems are pretty easy to install. The only thing you really have to pay for is the receiver.

IIRC Al Jazeera English can be readily had in the UK. Not sure it's on Freeview (digital terrestrial), but Sky (the main satellite broadcaster) carries it, and probably Virgin Media (cable broadcaster) too. I used to watch it on occasion when I was at uni, to get some news from a non-'Western' source.

Not just the receiver, but the dish too. Actually I have looked into getting a FTA system just for kicks. I think though I would be willing to pay extra for a receiver that not only decodes mpeg2 but also mpeg4 and most importantly, can do a blind scan. As for the dish, I would also invest in one that is NOT static, but motorized. Otherwise I would have to manually unclamp, and point the dish manually in case I have to change positions just in case the channels I want are moved.

At one point I did actually have sat. service, but it was DirecTV. The problem is those small dishes DirecTV and Dishnet. are a bit too small and not optimal for receiving FTA. All FTA sites I have seen that sell FTA equipment recommend a dish at least 36" in diameter. I could still probably play with my little direcTV dish, but I would probably at least have to change the LNB to a universal one, and find a FTA receiver and try my luck.

If like I said I were to buy an FTA system though, I wouldn't mind getting a BUD(big ugly dish), only for the fact that I would like to catch both Ku and C-Band, which according to these FTA sites, you need a bigger dish (6' at least) to capture C-Band broadcasts. The only other thing is, I wouldn't know the first thing how to install a sat. system, let alone a BUD. I wouldn't know how to feed the cable from the dish to my house correctly.

As for the site streaming though, is it Linux friendly, or like everything else, only works in Windows/OSX....

One other thing. I found this site: lyngsat, which is a pretty good resource for orbiting tv-sats. to be used, and of course direcTV and echostar(Dishnet.) is listed there too.

Yeah that guy with the mask was weird, wasn't he supposed to give her a mask, not just look at her ...

If you are in the US then just about any FTA receiver will work with plain directv LNB's and switches which can be had for nothing if you ask around. This allows for multiple orbitals to all get piped together, also allowing for multiple receivers.