My company did many, many jobs for the government. It is fair that the government is known to the people and, by extension, I am as were many of my employees. It was usually just newspaper articles or some quick blurb on local television but the pictures are out there. As I am now running for office my picture is going to be more prevalent. I do not like it but I have no means or real desire to curtail it. Anyone involved in working for the people must be known to the people (unless it is some secret shit - and then it should only be for a limited scope).
The image is out of a whole set... There are multiple sets. He seems to have a fascination with making his hole bigger. I do not understand the reasoning but everyone should have a healthy hobby, I suppose. Yes, I learned about the extra sets and that this was not a one-off image from Slashdot. Thank you, Slashdot. You will forever be held dear in my heart. You fucking freaks...;)
I will start by saying that I know that I have no right to insist on being able to buy things in a manner that suits my needs best. I do not have that right and, by my account, that means I am ethically obligated to do without that material. Being ethics, and not morals, they are subject to change - as in situational ethics. So, I happily pirate and assist others in doing so.
For my desires, not needs, I want them to get together and centralize a single site. At this site I want to be able to buy unencumbered, DRM-free, content from the major and minor studios in a variety of payment methods and in a variety of file types and qualities. I would prefer, and would pay a lot, to be able to go online and have access to all content (say a few months old or older) that the movie houses, in my country, have put out. I would expect a repository for other countries to be available.
If they are in for a penny then they are in for a pound. To use the service they must reasonably make all of their content available on the site. I suppose we could make it mandatory with copyright law changes but I would hate to see it go that far - I am not really a fan of increased legislation. Unsigned, independent, and any artist can use the medium. It should have open APIs and optional data tracking and a chance to build communities within it.
I would prefer to pay a single fee - I will pay hell-a-good money, willingly. I should be able to stream or download it. They are free to use some overhead to put a file identification number in random whitespace as even compressed protocols have room for that. This will enable them to track downloads that have been shared and to take appropriate action.
As music and movie studios are often the same parent company, I would like music and movies to be in the same spot. I will happily pay even more for the added benefit. In other words, in a situation where most would expect to pay less (buying in volume and paying a subscription) I would eagerly pay more just for the ease of access, DRM-free, and multiple file types being in one single place and under one single room. Then, anybody wishing to include their content, is free to submit it to them and is paid if their material is downloaded or streamed. It is a proportion and percentages...
The rates need to be exactly the same for everyone and everyone must charge. This will not be a medium for giving out free music or movies. That is not what it is designed for nor what it is to be used for. Every single movie pays the same percentage to be on the site and only when it is downloaded which is also the only time it is paid. People could subscribe, gift, subscribe to parts, buy individually, etc... I accept reasonable limitations (even though I could circumvent them easily) and will adhere to them. I accept a single IP connecting at the same time and I will not share my login information with other people outside of my household.
I would pay a few hundred bucks a month for full, unfettered, access like that. Right now I am paying for my ISP to connect me and I have found almost everything I have ever looked for with only a few exceptions. I would pay a great deal of money for the access, speed (I am assuming), and interface. We can talk about adjusting things on the legal side in a different conversation.
I have absolutely zero faith that such will ever be created.
Kansas tried that. My "mistake" was having it in my pocket. I had refused to allow them to search the car. They were going to keep it and claim it was for drugs. I gave them my lawyer's card (never mind that he is not really a criminal trial attorney himself - there are some in his office, though) and told them I would be staying in town to get it resolved. I then took pictures of the police officers. They gave me the money back and told me to get out of Kansas and that I was permanently banned from Kansas and subject to arrest if I ever returned. That made me giggle a little bit. They can do no such thing but, as I was right next to Missouri, I felt it prudent to let them "win."
More amusing was they tried, so hard, to get me to let them search the car. They tried everything - including a drug dog. They made up so many excuses and tried peering in the windows for a glimpse of anything that would be probable cause. They worked so hard. They even tried telling me that my refusal to allow them to search was probable cause to enable them to search. (Yes, yes I have shared the Kansas story before - it is important.) *chuckles* I pointed out that I was not a teenager, that I was a fully grown adult in his 50s, that I was actually probably more aware of the law (as a concept - not the specifics of their state and county), and that they were pretty silly for trying such. They looked sad and dejected, I kid you not, as if they thought I might be subject to being guilt-tripped and would let them search the car. I congratulated them on their witty attempt, the whole thing about not allowing a search was probable cause for a search, and they looked a little happier. It was after that they decided they were going to confiscate my cash. I had a large sum of cash, a giant wad in my pocket to be quite honest, for reasons of my own.
Some of that reasoning was to be able to buy additional drugs if my drugs had run out. You can always find more opiates in a reasonable sized town. Anyhow, I no longer do drugs and the moral of the story (which should probably be 'fuck da police') is really just, "Know your rights!"
We're just going to strip that bit out of the packets when we send them out, rip them to disk, or download them. Some of us will be actively evil in this matter. I, myself, am such a person. I currently am seeding about 500 GB of files, mostly movies, that I will never watch. I have them downloaded to a NAS just for the purpose of seeding them. Yes, I actively participate in that thread at KAT - and I download stuff I will never, ever, watch just so I can help the guy/girl seed it. Why? I am a prick and want to mess up the numbers. I want them to sue me. I can pay the fees but I plan on making it noisy and take them a very long time. They will be suing my estate by the time I am done.
Nope. I am pirating documentaries with it. Quite a few, really. And sharing them. Yes, I kind of am egging them on - I have been for years. They just won't sue me.
The reason I mentioned the repossession of a regular car is I have seen how that worked out. An in-law, this was a while ago, had his car taken and the towing company yanked it while it was in gear and damaged it. He paid the required payments and got it back. He then sued for damages. The judge pretty much giggled at him but allowed him to sue. It did not go well.
There are three movies and a few shorts. Well, that is what I found. They get "better" as they get newer which is unfortunate. I giggled like a little school girl. They are all on YouTube.
US Cellular also gets to use the Verizon towers though OTA updates do not push through them if you are out of the area for a while. Anyhow, USC is the only mobile company I have ever seen that has actively tried to lower my bill on a fairly regular basis. I have plenty of money so it really does not matter but they almost always have some sort of offer that claims to cost me less on my overall bill. The few times I have taken advantage of this, it really did save me money on my bill. They moved me to some new plan with unlimited voice, text, and a bunch of data. Prior they moved me into a strange plan with just voice, text, and data. Before that they moved me to voice, text, and data. All of them were different than what I had. Another good thing they do is they kill your voice mail if you ask - quickly. Unfortunately, every time I do change my plan (and I am paying less now than I ever have - I think?) they turn the voice mail back on. So, I call them and they turn it off again... This has happened many, many times.
So............ Umm.... Yeah.... So.... I, uh... I clicked the link in your response. I am not sure what I was expecting. I do have a question. What does the link have to do with the conversation? No, I really do want to know how you connect the conversation and that link together.
I do not recall the specific regulations but I seem to recall that they can not charge interest on a purchase. You need to be a lending facility to advertise such. You can itemize the rates as all sorts of things but you can not call them interest - as I understand. Stores, in store credit, can also only do 'interest free' for so long which is another strange rule. I understand that it varies by state but this is generally true and there are some federal laws that must be met in order to charge interest at all. I believe those stores where you rent to own shit at absurd prices do not directly charge interest because of this. They still charge it, do not get me wrong, it just is not called interest. Where it is allowed, and called interest, then I think that has to be a separate division (or something like that) and then there is a limit to how long they can go interest free and some shit. Cars are financed by a real lending institution and can have long interest-free periods. Your local store can not UNLESS it has some sort of partnership with a lending facility such as a local bank.
I may be missing something (or completely wrong) but that is how I understand it - having asked about this in the past from someone who knew such things. They could have been wrong or I could have misunderstood but it fits.
I know you can bring in a phone and have that activated and use that with unlimited Verizon. My sibling does this. I've bought her a few phone gifts over the years because my gifts are almost always compute devices. She, for reasons known only to her and a gargoyle, does all of her computing on a phone. All of it... No, she does not tether her phone and use a computer. She does all of her computing on the phone up to and including writing books. I have given her computers. It did not help. She has been using phones for many years now. She used to be a normal computer user. She lives off the grid (entirely) so I guess it makes some sense but not a whole lot seeing as I know she has plenty of available power.
I have a sister who is still on the unlimited data plan. She swears by it even though she has moved and now gets rather inferior service. Then again, in her defense, all cell phones get poor service at her house. She is even more off the grid than I am but she is much closer to a town. I have much better cell service than she has but am much further away from people. Hmm...
Anyhow, she does all of her computing on a cell phone and has since before the smart phone was really a thing. I have poked and prodded to determine why this is so but I am mostly met by grunts and gibberish. I see no value in it - I have bought her a few computers, like real computers that she used to use happily, but she has even gone so far as to write a novel on a cell phone and that was years ago.
Oddly, she is moving to a Windows phone. She mentioned this last week. I did not want to hear grunts and gibberish so I did not ask why. She is not *the* crazy sister. She is just *the other* crazy sister. The crazy sister wants a Surface and has no money so I will buy her a Surface. I digress...
Anyhow, the other crazy sister does everything on her phone and has stuck with buying the phones outright for many years. According to her, there are not many people still on the grandfathered unlimited plan. She has contacts within the company's retail section it appears, or she is just making it up and stating the obvious. I am actually a bit surprised to hear of anyone else still on it. How much data does one need to consume for this to be worth it? Doesn't Verizon still charge you the same rate even though you do not subsidize your phone?
I have been joking with girlfriends, for years, that I will someday be forced to kill them and bury them in a swamp. Now, if a police man asks me about it, I can just say it is a cultural thing and that he is racist for asking.
I do not know who makes them but some company makes a clock that is used in institutions and that clock synchronizes itself over that part of the spectrum. I have an "intelligent" scanner that I tote around with me at times (more so in the winter when I am out towing people out of ditches for fun) and I almost always have to disable that set when I am in a large town because it finds the signal and happily plays me beeps every so often. I had a hell of a time figuring out what the source is.
They might let the ham folks toy with you for a little while before they step in with guns, arrest, and fines. The FCC has been a bit devious in the past and has allowed some vigilante behavior to go unnoticed.
I always picture the folks who make these complaints as inferior Rainman-esque folks whining because someone told them the vending machine would have Cheez-Its. "I was told the machine would have Cheez-Its." (Or however that snack cracker is spelled.)
I have not had a porn stash in, like, ten years or more. Hell, for a while I was on dialup in that time and I still did not have a porn stash. Hell, I was on satellite and did not have a porn stash. There is just so much porn that, and I will save the whole fucking internet - it is bad, I just can not see any reason to save any. I have Windows executables older than most of the people here - cryptically named "Setup.exe" which is really helpful in deciding why I saved that file from 1998. But no, I have no porn. Well, no professional porn. I might have an image of an ex-girlfriend or ten kicking around but I'll be damned if I know where they are. Conversely, there is likely a picture of my penis (or ten) on the internet. I do not have a local copy. I can make more.
I have observed and poked him. He is mostly harmless and a bit zealous about the hosts file. I dare say he almost sort of makes us what is the Slashdot culture. Not him, by himself, of course but him as an inclusion of all of us. I was, at one point, going to email him a suggestion for his application but I decided it would be a waste of time - not for him but for the feature I had in mind. He is not much "worse" than the rest of us on any one of a number of given subjects. Then again, I like poking people to see what comes out. I am mostly here to watch with and interact with the strange creatures that I found so many years ago. I am thoroughly convinced there should be a study (or ten) done on Slashdotters.
Are you sure that 50 to 100 is actually a reasonable number of tabs to open? I have some blisteringly fast computers with absolutely retarded amounts of RAM and I still would find that many tabs unreasonable.
If I ever stumble, bleary eyed, out to the now-noisy garage to find some person with an ethernet cable connected to my car (instead of just, you know, stealing it) I am going to be damned curious and probably help them. I am supposing that they had something attached to the end of the ethernet cable. I will probably want to help. Maybe they are some eco-nut group hacking me to give me greater efficiency.
In a court of law? Probably the owner if the repossession was lawful. If they were unlawfully seizing the car then they would be accountable but the owner who missed the payment would be accountable as they would be the one who made the car need to be returned due to non-payment. If your vehicle is harmed during repossession currently you are accountable for it. The premise is that you made the repossession a necessity.
It is less likely to capture the energy from a second round, yes. That does not mean it will automatically fail to do so. It was not a very bright thing to do, regardless. Yay! Alcohol!
Japan did not surrender unconditionally. They surrendered with the condition that the emperor be allowed to live and immune from prosecution. At least that is how I recall it. So, mostly, it was unconditional but not quite.
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My company did many, many jobs for the government. It is fair that the government is known to the people and, by extension, I am as were many of my employees. It was usually just newspaper articles or some quick blurb on local television but the pictures are out there. As I am now running for office my picture is going to be more prevalent. I do not like it but I have no means or real desire to curtail it. Anyone involved in working for the people must be known to the people (unless it is some secret shit - and then it should only be for a limited scope).
The image is out of a whole set... There are multiple sets. He seems to have a fascination with making his hole bigger. I do not understand the reasoning but everyone should have a healthy hobby, I suppose. Yes, I learned about the extra sets and that this was not a one-off image from Slashdot. Thank you, Slashdot. You will forever be held dear in my heart. You fucking freaks... ;)
I will start by saying that I know that I have no right to insist on being able to buy things in a manner that suits my needs best. I do not have that right and, by my account, that means I am ethically obligated to do without that material. Being ethics, and not morals, they are subject to change - as in situational ethics. So, I happily pirate and assist others in doing so.
For my desires, not needs, I want them to get together and centralize a single site. At this site I want to be able to buy unencumbered, DRM-free, content from the major and minor studios in a variety of payment methods and in a variety of file types and qualities. I would prefer, and would pay a lot, to be able to go online and have access to all content (say a few months old or older) that the movie houses, in my country, have put out. I would expect a repository for other countries to be available.
If they are in for a penny then they are in for a pound. To use the service they must reasonably make all of their content available on the site. I suppose we could make it mandatory with copyright law changes but I would hate to see it go that far - I am not really a fan of increased legislation. Unsigned, independent, and any artist can use the medium. It should have open APIs and optional data tracking and a chance to build communities within it.
I would prefer to pay a single fee - I will pay hell-a-good money, willingly. I should be able to stream or download it. They are free to use some overhead to put a file identification number in random whitespace as even compressed protocols have room for that. This will enable them to track downloads that have been shared and to take appropriate action.
As music and movie studios are often the same parent company, I would like music and movies to be in the same spot. I will happily pay even more for the added benefit. In other words, in a situation where most would expect to pay less (buying in volume and paying a subscription) I would eagerly pay more just for the ease of access, DRM-free, and multiple file types being in one single place and under one single room. Then, anybody wishing to include their content, is free to submit it to them and is paid if their material is downloaded or streamed. It is a proportion and percentages...
The rates need to be exactly the same for everyone and everyone must charge. This will not be a medium for giving out free music or movies. That is not what it is designed for nor what it is to be used for. Every single movie pays the same percentage to be on the site and only when it is downloaded which is also the only time it is paid. People could subscribe, gift, subscribe to parts, buy individually, etc... I accept reasonable limitations (even though I could circumvent them easily) and will adhere to them. I accept a single IP connecting at the same time and I will not share my login information with other people outside of my household.
I would pay a few hundred bucks a month for full, unfettered, access like that. Right now I am paying for my ISP to connect me and I have found almost everything I have ever looked for with only a few exceptions. I would pay a great deal of money for the access, speed (I am assuming), and interface. We can talk about adjusting things on the legal side in a different conversation.
I have absolutely zero faith that such will ever be created.
Kansas tried that. My "mistake" was having it in my pocket. I had refused to allow them to search the car. They were going to keep it and claim it was for drugs. I gave them my lawyer's card (never mind that he is not really a criminal trial attorney himself - there are some in his office, though) and told them I would be staying in town to get it resolved. I then took pictures of the police officers. They gave me the money back and told me to get out of Kansas and that I was permanently banned from Kansas and subject to arrest if I ever returned. That made me giggle a little bit. They can do no such thing but, as I was right next to Missouri, I felt it prudent to let them "win."
More amusing was they tried, so hard, to get me to let them search the car. They tried everything - including a drug dog. They made up so many excuses and tried peering in the windows for a glimpse of anything that would be probable cause. They worked so hard. They even tried telling me that my refusal to allow them to search was probable cause to enable them to search. (Yes, yes I have shared the Kansas story before - it is important.) *chuckles* I pointed out that I was not a teenager, that I was a fully grown adult in his 50s, that I was actually probably more aware of the law (as a concept - not the specifics of their state and county), and that they were pretty silly for trying such. They looked sad and dejected, I kid you not, as if they thought I might be subject to being guilt-tripped and would let them search the car. I congratulated them on their witty attempt, the whole thing about not allowing a search was probable cause for a search, and they looked a little happier. It was after that they decided they were going to confiscate my cash. I had a large sum of cash, a giant wad in my pocket to be quite honest, for reasons of my own.
Some of that reasoning was to be able to buy additional drugs if my drugs had run out. You can always find more opiates in a reasonable sized town. Anyhow, I no longer do drugs and the moral of the story (which should probably be 'fuck da police') is really just, "Know your rights!"
We're just going to strip that bit out of the packets when we send them out, rip them to disk, or download them. Some of us will be actively evil in this matter. I, myself, am such a person. I currently am seeding about 500 GB of files, mostly movies, that I will never watch. I have them downloaded to a NAS just for the purpose of seeding them. Yes, I actively participate in that thread at KAT - and I download stuff I will never, ever, watch just so I can help the guy/girl seed it. Why? I am a prick and want to mess up the numbers. I want them to sue me. I can pay the fees but I plan on making it noisy and take them a very long time. They will be suing my estate by the time I am done.
Nope. I am pirating documentaries with it. Quite a few, really. And sharing them. Yes, I kind of am egging them on - I have been for years. They just won't sue me.
The reason I mentioned the repossession of a regular car is I have seen how that worked out. An in-law, this was a while ago, had his car taken and the towing company yanked it while it was in gear and damaged it. He paid the required payments and got it back. He then sued for damages. The judge pretty much giggled at him but allowed him to sue. It did not go well.
There are three movies and a few shorts. Well, that is what I found. They get "better" as they get newer which is unfortunate. I giggled like a little school girl. They are all on YouTube.
US Cellular also gets to use the Verizon towers though OTA updates do not push through them if you are out of the area for a while. Anyhow, USC is the only mobile company I have ever seen that has actively tried to lower my bill on a fairly regular basis. I have plenty of money so it really does not matter but they almost always have some sort of offer that claims to cost me less on my overall bill. The few times I have taken advantage of this, it really did save me money on my bill. They moved me to some new plan with unlimited voice, text, and a bunch of data. Prior they moved me into a strange plan with just voice, text, and data. Before that they moved me to voice, text, and data. All of them were different than what I had. Another good thing they do is they kill your voice mail if you ask - quickly. Unfortunately, every time I do change my plan (and I am paying less now than I ever have - I think?) they turn the voice mail back on. So, I call them and they turn it off again... This has happened many, many times.
So............ Umm.... Yeah.... So.... I, uh... I clicked the link in your response. I am not sure what I was expecting. I do have a question. What does the link have to do with the conversation? No, I really do want to know how you connect the conversation and that link together.
I do not recall the specific regulations but I seem to recall that they can not charge interest on a purchase. You need to be a lending facility to advertise such. You can itemize the rates as all sorts of things but you can not call them interest - as I understand. Stores, in store credit, can also only do 'interest free' for so long which is another strange rule. I understand that it varies by state but this is generally true and there are some federal laws that must be met in order to charge interest at all. I believe those stores where you rent to own shit at absurd prices do not directly charge interest because of this. They still charge it, do not get me wrong, it just is not called interest. Where it is allowed, and called interest, then I think that has to be a separate division (or something like that) and then there is a limit to how long they can go interest free and some shit. Cars are financed by a real lending institution and can have long interest-free periods. Your local store can not UNLESS it has some sort of partnership with a lending facility such as a local bank.
I may be missing something (or completely wrong) but that is how I understand it - having asked about this in the past from someone who knew such things. They could have been wrong or I could have misunderstood but it fits.
I know you can bring in a phone and have that activated and use that with unlimited Verizon. My sibling does this. I've bought her a few phone gifts over the years because my gifts are almost always compute devices. She, for reasons known only to her and a gargoyle, does all of her computing on a phone. All of it... No, she does not tether her phone and use a computer. She does all of her computing on the phone up to and including writing books. I have given her computers. It did not help. She has been using phones for many years now. She used to be a normal computer user. She lives off the grid (entirely) so I guess it makes some sense but not a whole lot seeing as I know she has plenty of available power.
I have a sister who is still on the unlimited data plan. She swears by it even though she has moved and now gets rather inferior service. Then again, in her defense, all cell phones get poor service at her house. She is even more off the grid than I am but she is much closer to a town. I have much better cell service than she has but am much further away from people. Hmm...
Anyhow, she does all of her computing on a cell phone and has since before the smart phone was really a thing. I have poked and prodded to determine why this is so but I am mostly met by grunts and gibberish. I see no value in it - I have bought her a few computers, like real computers that she used to use happily, but she has even gone so far as to write a novel on a cell phone and that was years ago.
Oddly, she is moving to a Windows phone. She mentioned this last week. I did not want to hear grunts and gibberish so I did not ask why. She is not *the* crazy sister. She is just *the other* crazy sister. The crazy sister wants a Surface and has no money so I will buy her a Surface. I digress...
Anyhow, the other crazy sister does everything on her phone and has stuck with buying the phones outright for many years. According to her, there are not many people still on the grandfathered unlimited plan. She has contacts within the company's retail section it appears, or she is just making it up and stating the obvious. I am actually a bit surprised to hear of anyone else still on it. How much data does one need to consume for this to be worth it? Doesn't Verizon still charge you the same rate even though you do not subsidize your phone?
I have been joking with girlfriends, for years, that I will someday be forced to kill them and bury them in a swamp. Now, if a police man asks me about it, I can just say it is a cultural thing and that he is racist for asking.
I do not know who makes them but some company makes a clock that is used in institutions and that clock synchronizes itself over that part of the spectrum. I have an "intelligent" scanner that I tote around with me at times (more so in the winter when I am out towing people out of ditches for fun) and I almost always have to disable that set when I am in a large town because it finds the signal and happily plays me beeps every so often. I had a hell of a time figuring out what the source is.
They might let the ham folks toy with you for a little while before they step in with guns, arrest, and fines. The FCC has been a bit devious in the past and has allowed some vigilante behavior to go unnoticed.
I always picture the folks who make these complaints as inferior Rainman-esque folks whining because someone told them the vending machine would have Cheez-Its. "I was told the machine would have Cheez-Its." (Or however that snack cracker is spelled.)
I have not had a porn stash in, like, ten years or more. Hell, for a while I was on dialup in that time and I still did not have a porn stash. Hell, I was on satellite and did not have a porn stash. There is just so much porn that, and I will save the whole fucking internet - it is bad, I just can not see any reason to save any. I have Windows executables older than most of the people here - cryptically named "Setup.exe" which is really helpful in deciding why I saved that file from 1998. But no, I have no porn. Well, no professional porn. I might have an image of an ex-girlfriend or ten kicking around but I'll be damned if I know where they are. Conversely, there is likely a picture of my penis (or ten) on the internet. I do not have a local copy. I can make more.
I have observed and poked him. He is mostly harmless and a bit zealous about the hosts file. I dare say he almost sort of makes us what is the Slashdot culture. Not him, by himself, of course but him as an inclusion of all of us. I was, at one point, going to email him a suggestion for his application but I decided it would be a waste of time - not for him but for the feature I had in mind. He is not much "worse" than the rest of us on any one of a number of given subjects. Then again, I like poking people to see what comes out. I am mostly here to watch with and interact with the strange creatures that I found so many years ago. I am thoroughly convinced there should be a study (or ten) done on Slashdotters.
Are you sure that 50 to 100 is actually a reasonable number of tabs to open? I have some blisteringly fast computers with absolutely retarded amounts of RAM and I still would find that many tabs unreasonable.
Just a bit to the west of Mexico City Beach as I recall. I have taken 98 back to PCB from MCB and got there before I left.
If I ever stumble, bleary eyed, out to the now-noisy garage to find some person with an ethernet cable connected to my car (instead of just, you know, stealing it) I am going to be damned curious and probably help them. I am supposing that they had something attached to the end of the ethernet cable. I will probably want to help. Maybe they are some eco-nut group hacking me to give me greater efficiency.
In a court of law? Probably the owner if the repossession was lawful. If they were unlawfully seizing the car then they would be accountable but the owner who missed the payment would be accountable as they would be the one who made the car need to be returned due to non-payment. If your vehicle is harmed during repossession currently you are accountable for it. The premise is that you made the repossession a necessity.
It is less likely to capture the energy from a second round, yes. That does not mean it will automatically fail to do so. It was not a very bright thing to do, regardless. Yay! Alcohol!
Japan did not surrender unconditionally. They surrendered with the condition that the emperor be allowed to live and immune from prosecution. At least that is how I recall it. So, mostly, it was unconditional but not quite.