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IANAL // [Usenet] Abbreviation, "I Am Not A Lawyer".
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IANAL //
[Usenet] Abbreviation, "I Am Not A Lawyer".
Usually precedes legal advice.
Related:
I am not responsible for advice not taken!
I am not, nor have ever been, a lawyer.
PD /P-D/ adj. [common] Abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over Usenet and from Internet archive sites.
Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting reproduction and use rights to anyone who can snarf a copy....
IDP /I-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Internet Death Penalty.
Common (probably now more so and frequently verbed. Compare UDP....
Burns: Now before we begin, let me make one thing clear for you.
I want your legal advice. I even pay for it. But to me you're all vipers!...
Advice is usually worth what it cost.
GoAT // [Usenet] Abbreviation: "Go Away, Troll". See troll.
YMMV // cav. Abbreviation for Your mileage may vary common on Usenet.
language lawyer n. A person, usually an experienced or senior software enginee
who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages....