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Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git’s features (learning ease, tiny footprint and fast performance, services like GitHub) have caused many to choose it over older alternatives like Subversion and CVS. If you want to find out how you can use Git, come the LUG Git tutorial this Wednesday.
The UMBC Linux Users Group will sponsor a lecture and workshop on Git led by Alexander Bauer from Noon to 1:00pm on Wednesday, February 26 in the ITE 240 computer laboratory at UMBC. “Git” is a term that has become familiar to a great many of us in the technical world, whether as users or as developers. With the rise of such services as GitHub and BitBucket, and an increasing number of open source projects being hosted as Git repositories, yet many people are still unfamiliar with its use and potential use cases. During the workshop you can use your own laptop or a lab computer.
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No, not Panem. This year’s winner makes “The Hunger Games” look like a day at the beach. The nation in question describes itself as a
You probably know it as North Korea.
According to Gallup, fewer Americans approve of North Korea than any other nation. More seriously, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently released a report accusing North Korea of
“Systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations.“
So what did North Korea do to deserve this denunciation? To summarize the United Nations:
1. North Korea does not allow its people the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, or even “freedom of thought.”
2. The government educates children and adults in its “all-encompassing indoctrination machine.” No independent sources of information are permitted.
3. Hunger is widespread, but the government frequently refuses aid organizations’ offers of assistance. Food is used ”as a means of control over the population.”
4. Anyone accused of dissent, and sometimes several generations of their families, can be sent to a labor camp indefinitely without trial. Torture, starvation, rape, and executions all occur regularly in these institutions. (Google recently began labeling these camps on google maps.)
The full list is far longer, but even four bullet points should deter any would-be North Korean immigrants. Sadly for its current citizens, emigration is another practice forbidden by the government. North Korea has long been considered something of a joke by outsiders: just check out the Onion’s remarkably successful “sexist man alive” parody. Inside its borders, however, nobody’s laughing. 
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