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This may be a stupid question because I'm assuming you already did this but have you tried unplugging modem/router for 60 seconds and see if that helps? For the full package you could even shut down your PC while doing this. Otherwise I'd say call your ISP. I'm now that knowledgeable about this sort of stuff, my skill for fixing the internet stops at unplugging the modem which works 100% of the time for me
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What lighting color do you like?
NickieB replied to Gump's topic in General & Miscellaneous Discussion
haha I posted a thread like this years ago! Anyway, I prefer red/blue, the only thing that they use around here is R/B and only recently when I was in Chicago did I get to see all blue in person. I don't dislike all blue, I think it looks cool but I just prefer the red/blue. To me red/blue is classic police colors and they pop more as far as visibility goes. As for the all red option or red/white I don't mind it as long as its on a non law enforcement vehicle like Fire or EMS. I don't believe that all red or red/white should ever be used on a police car, I think it looks horrible. A good example is the NYPD, can't stand it, plus those old FedSig halogen rotator Visions they use don't help either. The new Vision SLR's I love but the red/white still kills it for me but the lightbar preference is off topic. -
I don't know if you guys have seen this yet or not but its worth a watch because its a pretty cool light bar. As most of you probably know I have a strong dislike for the Liberty. I've never used it on a model and don't plan to anytime soon BUT when I saw the Liberty ll I had a strong change of heart. One of the biggest things I like is that they removed the black surrounding the modules. I don't know, I just think its sexy. Thoughts? (I know there is a way to embed that video so its playable right on the thread but I don't remember how. Mods feel free to edit or if someone wants to tell me the magic way I'll do it myself) Thanks willpv23
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Looking on YouTube and this site in the Tutorials section (LINK) is going to be your best friend because there is a learning curve to install mods, not a big one but its not as simple as breathing. As for the mods themselves there really isn't anything in particular that anyone can tell you to use because its really your personal taste and likes as far as cars/guns/peds go. There are some "core" and "commonly used" mods but I'll talk about those below. The downloads section (LINK) is a good place to start looking. Here are some of the more popular modders, you can find them through the member search and view their files through their profile or just watch out for their names when your looking through the downloads. EVI, Cj-24, Lt.Caine, BxBugs123, NicolaiB, Sgt.Kanyo, NickieB . There are a lot more, thats just all I can pull off the top of my head. If you like a car though don't hesitate to download it regardless of who its created by. As for mods, they've already told you to download OpenIV and SparkIV to install mods but there are some other core mods you'll probably want which help enhance game play. Keep in mind though that the more you add the more you risk instability and "unstable" is GTA IV's middle name... The "core" mods I spoke of: ELS v8 (or v7 or v6 - some prefer that to v8 but v8 is the most recent and advanced) SNT (Simple Native Trainer) LCPD:FR v 1.0c Police helper Spotlight mod Tow Truck mod Most of the above can be found on this site and other popular GTA IV gaming sites. Some may argue with my list but feel free to add to it to help this guy out Just for your reference here is what I run in my game: LCPD:FR v1.0, ELS v8, SNT, Police helper, Spotlight mod, policing callout script, Radar mod, Advanced Car Actions, Code 3 Mastercom B siren, and various car, gun, and ped models. I use to run a bunch of other scripts but I recently removed them trying to improve stability.
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Slicktop with K-9 Chevrolet Tahoe Pack
NickieB commented on Piarulli246's file in GTA4 Mods Vehicle Models
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Well its running off electricity so its just another thing in your house drawing power. As with central air it all depends on how much you run it. As others have said it doesn't cost no where near as much as central air. I had one in my first house at college in the window in my room and I honestly don't remember there being any sort of noticeable difference on my bill. If you use it every single day all day long you may see a slight increase but no I would be pretty confident saying it shouldn't be $100
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Cleveland Police, Dodge Charger 2012
NickieB commented on DySands's file in GTA4 Mods Vehicle Models
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Sons of Guns canceled, main star arrested
NickieB replied to TomballPD's topic in General & Miscellaneous Discussion
IMO Duck Dynasty is one of the most stupid shows on TV right now. Its so fake (scripted) and half the time the stuff is so ridiculous you can't help but automatically think, "Yeah this is setup, there's no way that would/could happen". But yet its one of the highest rated shows on TV right now - that one I don't understand. I read an article a while ago where Willie and his wife personally confessed that the show was setup. But hey, props to them, get all those endorsements and deals you can boys, keep those checks pouring in while the wave is rolling strong. Hell every store you go into you see t-shirts, hats, masks, toys, etc. they are everywhere... -
Sons of Guns canceled, main star arrested
NickieB replied to TomballPD's topic in General & Miscellaneous Discussion
You trying to get him off on a technicality? lol, jk. Your right though, he hasn't been convicted and is innocent until proven guilty. With allegations like this though there really isn't any coming back from that. Discovery channel isn't going to take any chances so they'll dump the show. They can't keep filming under the idea of "oh he was only accused, its possible he didn't do this" and then all the sudden he's found guilty. That would make them look terrible. If he is truly innocent and this ends up going to trial then I hope justice prevails and he's found not guilty. Although if he IS guilty I hope justice prevails in that way as well and I hope he rots in hell like the scumbag poor excuse for a father and human being he is. (I have a special deep dark place filled with hatred in my heart for sexual related crimes and there perpetrators) Not a chance - they can't take any chances of him being found guilty and the show still be in production. That would make them look like they support this or somehow think its okay. Did you see the statements that Red Jacket and Discovery released? sorry for the double post - forgot I wanted to reply to this guy as well -
Honestly your best bet and only option is to have them add you to their policy. Besides getting your own car, thats it. I don't see how it can be any more expensive to add you as a driver than to get your own policy. It should be cheaper to add you to theirs compared to your own policy. Granted their insurance is already high but all you would have to do is pay the difference. My example above still applies. Even if their insurance is $3000 every 6 and adding you takes it to $3500-$3700, thats still cheaper than the $1100 you were quoted on your own. If your some reason adding you takes there insurance up $1100 well then its a wash and you might as well just add yourself to theirs anyway since it really doesn't matter because it can't be insured twice so your independent quote doesn't hold any ground. So you have 2 options, get your own car or get yourself added to the plan.
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I don't understand why you would want to? I honestly don't know but just thinking about it I would say no on the grounds that its probably illegal. If you had it insured twice, you could make claims twice, use the first claim to fix it and pocket the second. What you can do is just have her add you on as the primary driver or a driver on the car. If your listed as the primary the price is going to skyrocket but there isn't anything you can do about that, one of the pleasures of being young. Also it depends on what kind of car it is, that will reflect the price as well. Heres a example: for the sake of this example lets say you can insure a car through 2 companies. Your mom pays $300 every 6 months through her company and you might pay $1300 every 6 months through your company. Now if you go on the same plan she has it may only be $850 every 6 months. You then can pay her the difference, $550 every 6 months instead of the $1300. As I said before it all depends on what sort of car it is but even for a older car around $1000 isn't that far off for a new driver every 6 months. I'm just using the quote I got when I was 18. We pay every 6 months to our company but your plan may be different. I'm now 25 and I only pay about $225 every 6 months. It probably goes without saying but its VERY important to keep your driving record clean, tickets or accidents will only drive the price up even more UPDATE: Just by the little bit of research I did, it seems you cannot insure a car twice especially in two different names
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Sons of Guns canceled, main star arrested
NickieB replied to TomballPD's topic in General & Miscellaneous Discussion
Considering he was running as a fugitive that would mean to me that he's guilty of something. Everything I thought I knew was flipped upside down when I read this. Either way the show is cancelled - bad rep for Discovery if they keep filming even if the charges are false -
I disagree also that a child should never be let near a firearm. The age range I refer to using the word "child" is around the age this girl was, 8-10. In the same breath though, I strongly believe there have to be strict rules and guidelines that are followed if they are. I'm just going to use myself as a example. When I was around the age she is, about 9, I was gifted my first BB gun. I was taught how to use it properly and that was the only gun I was allowed to shoot. I was allowed to handle other unloaded guns like our .22's and shotguns but never handled them loaded or shot them at that age. Once I was older I was moved to the .22 and when I was of hunting age (13) moved on to a 20 Gauge. I've been instructed by my family my entire life as well as formal safety classes. I never enjoyed hunting but I enjoy weapons and shooting them. I guess my point is that with the correct guidance a child age 9-10+ can safely handle a firearm if they are taught to respect it, proper weapon safety, and if they are slowly graduated along the correct calibers (in my opinion). At the age of 9 my father would have never put me behind a full auto weapon for 2 reasons, safety and the fact that I wouldn't have been able to handle it.
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Sons of Guns canceled, main star arrested
NickieB replied to TomballPD's topic in General & Miscellaneous Discussion
Wow, I would have never expected that... I liked that show, well I liked the roots of the show i.e. making the guns but I could do without all the fake scripted drama that goes on. I understand they do that to keep people coming back and to keep it interesting but it gets sickening after awhile. I'm not sure what to think, it says he was a fugitive which I would have never expected either. He always had law enforcement people on that show and seemed to be friends with the local brass. I suppose though - "its just a TV show" so that could have all been fake -
You seem to have been helped with the first question but your second one about a lack of a "police.wtd". The WTD contains all the textures to be used on the car with the exception of the vehshare textures. Those DO NOT have to be added to the WTD since they are already located elsewhere within the IV directory. The WTD you make yourself, thats why some unlocked cars don't include one. Lets say your replacing your created car in the noose spot, the WFT model gets exported as noose.wft and you import it as such. Then open the noose.wtd and erase all the texture files inside. After that you can import all your textures you used on the car, ALL of them otherwise you'll have white parts in the game. like I said before though, its not necessary to put the vehshare textures in the WTD. Oh and backup your noose.wft and noose.wtd prior to importing over top of them
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I don't know how you could blame the gun and not the kid/parents, the gun is fired by countless others without issue along with other automatic weapons. Then again I don't know if "blame" is the right word for this situation. This is a situation that never should have happened from the beginning, she should have never been given the option to or been told to shoot that gun on full auto. As many of you have said and I agree, she should have only been shooting a .22 until she was proficient enough to understand and respect a weapon. Not take a trip from New Jersey and put her behind a full auto Uzi. That would be like taking a 15 year old driver with a learners permit, putting them behind the wheel of a Ferrari and telling them to go 150 mph. They would crash because they are young and incapable of handling the situation and the equipment. I honestly feel bad for both parties, the man and his family for obvious reasons as well as the girl and her parents. As angry as I am that they put her in that situation, it still makes me feel for them because I can only imagine how horrible they feel. Even though it was a accident their daughter took a mans life in the course of a situation they put her in and they will have to live with that. As for the video - it conflicts with the story with the story saying he was standing behind her when it happened which would make more sense than the position in the video. It didn't say if the actual shooting was caught on tape or not, if it did I missed it. That could have been shot prior to the actual shooting. Him standing behind her would fit the order of events that it recoiled causing the gun to go backwards over her shoulder hitting him in the head. Now, this whole situation aside, shouldn't the instructor be in a place (when having someone shoot a full auto weapon) that he would be able to stop the weapon from walking up/right/left like that? By having his arms or hands placed in a way to prevent that? EDIT: I did some more reading, you were right, that is the video where only seconds later he was shot. So that was his position when he was struck.... The gun must (obviously) have recoiled to the left, striking him. You can hear what sounds like the girl dropping the gun and the split second of a scream/yelling..chilling Thanks to everyone for the input and replies, I enjoy reading everyone's views and opinions
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PocketJet In Car Printer
NickieB commented on johnclark1102's file in Resources & Assets Vehicles & Parts
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So I just read this story and figured I'd post it if anyway hasn't seen it yet. What are your thoughts on this? As someone who's been around firearms their entire life and trained in its proper use it really bothers me that a 9 y/o even got close to that weapon. To make it even worse - all of this was caught on video. If you google it you can see a small clip of him getting her setup to shoot it. The gun shop allows children as young as 8 to shoot guns and trains them on unloaded firearms at a even younger age. I think thats great, if a parent makes that choice to have their child learn the proper ways of handling and shooting a weapon. However I don't understand how the parents of this girl even remotely thought it would be a good idea for her to handle a fully automatic Uzi. I've seen grown adults have trouble handling a weapon on full auto let alone a 9 y/o with little to no experience. I understand we probably don't know all the details to this yet and please don't let this turn into some sort of flame war. "The child shot once and then lost control of the Uzi, firing four more shots. The recoil during the child's operation of the firearm sent it over her head and resulted in Vacca being struck in the head." That sentence gives all the reason we need as to why this should have never happened. The CHILD..lost control (of a fully auto weapon - no surprise there) causing the recoil, which everyone should have known she wouldn't be able to handle, to send it over her head and striking him in the head. You really can't explain to an adult what recoil feels like or how much recoil something has until they actually shoot it. Now how did we expect a child to be able to understand this and be prepared for it which she obviously wasn't since it walked back over her head with her finger still on the trigger. Now a family man with 10+ years of military experience is dead... Why? So they could say their 9 y/o shot a full auto uzi. I hope the parents are happy because now the whole world knows. Sorry if I repeated myself while typing this - when I read this is just made me really angry that it even was allowed to happen. ARTICLE:... "DOLAN SPRINGS, AZ (FOX5) - Authorities in northwest Arizona said the recoil on an automatic Uzi while in the hands of a 9-year-old girl led to a weapon instructor's fatal shooting. Charles Vacca, 39, of Lake Havasu City, AZ, died Monday night while being treated at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. The sheriff's office said the incident happened about 10 a.m. Monday at an outdoor shooting range at the Last Stop at 20606 North Highway 93 in White Hills near the Nevada-Arizona border. According to the sheriff's office, the instructor was standing next to the girl who was handling a 9 mm automatic Uzi. Citing an investigation, the sheriff's office said the child shot once and then lost control of the Uzi, firing four more shots. The recoil during the child's operation of the firearm sent it over her head and resulted in Vacca being struck in the head, deputies said. The man was airlifted to UMC where he later died. The sheriff's office said the child's parents were present at the time of the incident. A spokeswoman with Mohave County Sheriff's Office said the girl's father handled the gun first before the 9-year-old operated it. "It's so easy for us to go back and look at something that's very tragic and say, 'Boy! Why did that occur? That should not have happened because of,'" said Mohave County Sheriff Jim McCabe. "Well, maybe from now on, that 'because of' will be in place." On Tuesday, cell phone video shot by the girl's mother was released, showing the moments leading to the fatal shooting. In the video, Vacca is shown instructing the girl on stance and operation of the weapon. The Clark County Coroner's Office was assigned to perform an autopsy."
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LCPD/"Janesville" Police Department
NickieB commented on LtCarman's file in GTA4 Mods Vehicle Textures
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If I Won The $40 Million Lottery, and Gave $15 To The Developers....
NickieB replied to DivineHustle's topic in Discussion
When you read the thread title it sounds a little strange. I thought to myself, why would you only donate $15 to the cause when you just won $40,000,000. I also got a little excited since I thought you meant all content devs, like myself, once I read into it a little more I saw you are only hypothetically giving to the FR crew. Ah its nice to think what you would do with $40M... or even $15M. Although when you think about it (if you buy very expensive and lavish things) $15M isn't really all that much. Spent/invested wisely though, that could support a few generations comfortably -
Stuff on the right looks like cookie dough. Never heard of this before but then again I've been out of high school for many years...interesting.
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The import coords for that pushbar are setup for a Tahoe. It imported slightly to the rear and inside the front bumper since the Suburban is larger. If you look the pushbar is clipping inside the bumper. Just thought I'd point that out if you didn't notice it. Just move it forward a little and you'll be golden.
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Where could I find a Whelen SA315 speaker?
NickieB replied to Gump's topic in Suggestions & Requests
Thats the one I have and one of the only 2 I know of that exist. One by Tim/Deco and the other by Bugs. -

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