Microsoft does not want to show google ads, because google gets the money. Microsoft wants to show their own ads, so they change the program to disregard google ads and show their own instead.

It is my understanding that the original version of the app didn't show any ads at all, and this updated version shows only the ads that Google themselves serves up.

Assuming my understanding is correct, then this isn't about ad revenue; this is about user experience. Microsoft wants a good Youtube app on their phones because they know their users want one; not having it makes them look bad.

Which is also a very good reason for Google to want them to NOT have such an app. I don't have any idea if that is the actual reason they pulled MS's API key, but I find it infinitely more likely than an ad dispute.

Turn off... UEFI...

The fuck? UEFI is a replacement for BIOS; "disabling" it would entail disabling your system's ability to boot at all. Likely what you mean is Secure Boot, which is an optional feature for newer UEFI systems that caused a bunch of stink with Windows 8.

Actually, 100% of MMORPG character names are at risk, already. Someone can petition to force you to change your character's name at any time, for no reason. Whether or not they're listened to is a different matter.

Heck, I once knew someone who played WoW, with a tauren named USDAApproved; someone complained, and he had to change it.

BAM, Godwin's Law.

We're done here folks, move along.

Just to play Devil's Advocate...

Since your house comes with plumbing and a toilet, do you then get to complain when your water company charges you for flushing?

The preinstalled apps that have ads all have one common thread: they all use an online service. Online services cost money to run; every time you use the Weather app, it costs them money, even if it's a rather insignificant amount. It is hardly "unreasonable" for them to try to offset those costs.

The fact that paintball guns are only similar to firearms in a rudimentary sense, for one.

Seriously, no firearm in existence uses a feed system even REMOTELY similar to a paintball gun's, nor do they have the need of a separate fuel source, like a paintball gun's CO2 canister. Then you get to the fact that paintball guns don't experience any of the "kick" a hunting rifle will (seriously, Newton's third law), nor does the ammunition have the same range or ballistic trajectory.

And let's not forget completely different sights.

Firing a paintball gun is NOTHING like firing a hunting rifle, and training with a paintball gun is about as effective as training with a laser pointer rigged up with a trigger.

The point of the Second Amendment wasn't to protect the USA. It was to protect the citizens FROM the USA.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The "security of a free state" does not refer to the security of a nation from outside threats, but to the security of the people to HAVE a "free state". The people who wrote it had just fought a bloody war of revolution against a tyrannical state government, and they believed that the people may need to do so again in the future.

You DO realize that the entire point of the second amendment was to protect the people's ability to rise against a tyrannical government, like the people who wrote it had just done?

The modern equivalent of what the framers intended would be full military hardware, including tanks and drones, not just a really pointy stick. I'm betting that if they understood just how far military technology would advance, they may have rethought things a bit, but the intent was for the people to have the ability to be just as armed as the government.