Recent content by shoehorn

This has become ludicrous; I gave the image in question as an example and asked if there were rules in place that would (a) argue against it being used or (b) specify more generally as to what constitutes an acceptable avatar. How or why somebody would misinterpret these questions, or perhaps...

That's clearly not true. If you go back and read the very first post in this thread, I give the image in question as an example of the broader point of whether there are rules governing avatars: I've said repeatedly in this thread that I'm not limiting this discussion to any particular...

There's certainly no indisputable association between a "skull and crossbones" and Nazi Germany. However, the specific image I linked to is a symbol of Nazi Germany; it's the particular totenkopf that was used by the Waffen SS. As a comparison, this is technically the same thing as this...

That doesn't hold. For instance, I'm not personally offended if someone chooses to have a picture of Hitler as their avatar. However, the fact that I wouldn't take offense at it doesn't change the following: Some people undoubtedly will find it offensive. There's an expectation that we...

I don't find anything offensive about the image itself; it is after all simply a reproduction of a photograph and is meaningless without context. The main point is that some people, given the context of their own feelings about Nazi Germany, undoubtedly would find it offensive. It's not...

That's good to know, thanks.

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. The only thing I will say is that openly displaying that as a tattoo would be likely to get you killed in many places in Europe.

Regardless of his stance towards National Socialism, Rommel commanded German troops in battle. This makes him guilty of participation in a war of aggression, which is a war crime under the Nuremburg principles; it was also a crime because it breached then-extant international norms and treaties...

Recently I attempted to contact the moderators about a member's avatar, asking for clarification on whether it was acceptable to have a picture of Erwin Rommel for it. I've not heard anything in response, so I'll ask the question here. Is it acceptable to have such an image as an avatar here...

The entire German campaign was a war of aggression, hence illegal according to the Nuremburg principles. Hope that helps.

Indeed. However, given that many people find images of Nazi Germany and those who waged illegal war on its behalf to be offensive, it would be nice if you'd change it to something less provocative.

The irony of you questioning someone's liberal credentials while having that as your avatar is apparently lost on you. By the way, how that avatar has escaped the moderators' attention is baffling. Are those who knowingly conduct aggressive war on behalf of anti-Semitic despots not verboten?

Nobody here will be able to give you medical advice that you can rely on. Are there any free clinics or university teaching hospitals near you that you can visit?

LyX.

One simple way to do it is to define a matrix to hold the vectors before entering the loop; once you're inside the loop you can then concatenate the vector to the matrix. A = []; % This is the matrix to hold the vectors. for i = 1:n % Do stuff with the vector. A = [A y]; % Append...