Executing a keyword search is involves minimal human behavior, but sifting through the results, and most importantly, redacting any irrelevant or personal information that should not be made public very much is human labor. For broad keyword searches that could easily be thousands or tens of thousands of hours of human labor.

How is a couple years of apprenticeship where you are paid any worse than 4 years of college plus debt?

Maybe a second responsible party should examine everything before something is published? This is how it works in many places.

I don't understand your problem with the way apprenticeship is done. It's always been like this! Even in IT.

Yup, it comes from not understanding how funding and military procurement works. If you go 1$ over your allotment it causes a lot of headaches....

Who wants to do that?

I roast my own coffee and simply prefer it with cream.

It will follow the technology S-curve just like anything else. Where are we at now?

English is a mishmash of several languages, so learning just English is enough.

It was J for me

It's not a matter of politically acceptable, it's something that doesn't alarm shareholders.

It's the same in the US. I use direct deposit all the time to pay bills or other recurring payments at no cost.

Higher standard of living in the US means a larger carbon footprint, so yes you are correct.

I've definitely noticed this on a motorcycle, not so much in a car.

Money was invented so the government could collect taxes.