No. Updates are free. Just buy the game once.
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Minecraft does not update on any schedule. For further information on updates and such, you can use social medias like Twitter to see how their progress is.
No your have to wait for the mods to update which may take some time.
You need to update your texture pack to the same version as Minecraft.Every time Minecraft updates the game it will break almost every mod/texture pack so the mod writers have to update them to run right again. It can take hours or weeks depending on how large the mod or texture pack is to update them again.
I few seconds plus or minus, depending on how fast your computer is. (this does not count for the actual time it takes for minecraft to open, just for it to load, this also does not count if there is an update, then it will take as long as it would for it to update.)
because it is not Nintendo so it would need to update all the time and it is a strong cheat system and the more cheats the more updates