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To: Smart_Money who wrote (62136)	10/26/2001 9:45:32 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I can hardly believe you are taking this silly attitude. It seems likely that HP included a game for those who unlike yourself like to be entertained by their PCs. Included in one of the games is a program which has, in its title, the words "die" and "netscape". You have no idea what that program does or why it is included or why those names are used in the program name but you jump to the conclusion that it is "disturbing". The program appears to be for an obsolete application which might well need a helper app to fulfill some arcane function the game requires - or maybe one of the programmers is a Neanderthal who still uses WordPerfect and wrote it for his own use, and it somehow got into the distribution. I guess you don't have any teenage children. A quick search of some of the game directories on my kids' machines turned up program names like "rapid_kill", "kill_all", "slow_death", "more_blood", "throat_kill", and a bunch more.