Unfortunately, I have to agree that it's not very effective. Even using it on Wikipedia articles, on which it has likely been trained, doesn't yield impressive results. It would be more interesting if it worked well.
> if you have children, do not raise them with a vegetarian or even vegan diet. That should be classified and punishable as child abuse.
That's ridiculous. Would you not agree that vegetarian people are likely to be more conscious of their nutritian than the average person?
Here's an anecdote. I know three children brought up in vegetarian* family. All three were high achievers academically and athletically. It's worth noting that their mother was very conscious of nutrition, and did give them supplements.
*Pescatarian, actually. Though many pescatarians call themselves vegetarian, including this family.
>Would you not agree that vegetarian people are likely to be more conscious of their nutritian than the average person?
That's certainly true, and actually a necessity for vegetarianism to be healthy in the first place (just removing meat from your meals isn't going to magically be more healthy, it's actually the opposite). It's still pretty much impossible to supply a growing child with the needed nutrients on a purely vegetarian basis. While it's of course possible for children to grow up into healthy adults this way, it's still not without heavy risks to the child's physical development.
People who say it's a dangerous diet without any sources are only spreading FUD. Of course you don't just remove the meat, you replace it and get your nutrients elsewhere. I have a three-year old vegan daughter that is thriving, and we spent New Year's with two families, each with vegan one-year olds.
If the above children are still too young for the alleged negative health effects, read up on older vegan children at [1]. If you want the American Dietetic Association guidelines [2]:
"Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life-cycle including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence and for athletes."
Instead of "pretty much impossible", I would say it's quite easy to provide all needed nutrients. All parents, not just vegan parents, should read up on childrens' nutritional needs. But it doesn't matter if the protein comes from meat or kidney beans, or if the B12 and calcium come from cow's milk or fortified oat milk.
My system triple boots into OS X, Windows and Ubuntu. I have a home partition, formatted in HFS+.
What would be the best strategy for me to use? Should I just encrypt the home volume using something cross-platform like TrueCrypt, or is it practical (an maintainable) to do full-disk encryption in such an environment?
My home partition has very sensitive data and I've been putting off creating a TrueCrypt container for this data.
This is probably not answering your question but a possible solution is to switch to using OSX 100% of the time and then use Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox to virtualize Windows and Ubuntu. It's much more practical than having to worry about partitions / boot volumes and general sharing problems. This way you can even encrypt your entire OS X volume and not use encryption on the VMs.
I'm also dual booting OS X and Ubuntu with a shared home partition formatted as HFS+. Getting the encryption to work nicely in Linux sounded pretty easy, but I couldn't figure out how to do it in OS X. My current solution is to store anything particularly sensitive in a TrueCrypt file...obviously not the best solution.
Out of personal interest: Did you get Linux to mount the HFS+ partition with R/W access with journaling enabled? I am also curious if you make any progress with encrypting the entire partition.
3 proofs-of-concept. The idea is simple, use garbled protocol to make GFW confused but destination servers understand. And inject designed low TTL packets to GFW.
