The same way I know you read it too. My body excretes billions of air-floating nano-particules that are capable of video-recording and re-broadcasting back everything they see in (almost) Real Time.
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Um what part of the obvious here did you miss?
Condescending much?
...there's tons of other companies who think they have a patent claim against VP8.
[Citation needed.] And no, don't give me a hearsay citation of the MPEG LA consortium itself, nor a citation of one of their numerous member companies, or employees, or one of their lawyers/PR firm on retainer. After all, when SCO's reason for living was threatened, they said all kinds of unsubstantiated lies in order to try to convince us of their claims. Why should it be any different in this case?
There's absolutely nothing Google can do about that or grant you any form of license for or immunity against.
Just like there is nothing the MPEG LA can do to give you immunity against a patent troll who's not a members of theirs (isn't this obvious as well?).
In fact, if you want slightly better protection, I'd suggest you go with the open standard that's currently being offered royalty-free and in perpetuity by Google. I am no psychic, and I can not tell what the future will hold, but one thing that I can tell you for sure is that when companies try to go against open standards/open source offered in good will by a major corporation, they're not just going against a huge corporate Juggernaut, they're going against all the open source/open standards zealouts of the World at the very same time.
And before this announcement, H.264 was fine, it had the protection of all the zealouts out there (including myself), but now that there is a better offer on the table (one that comes with no threat, no expiration, and no strings that are at least implicitly attached). You can rest assured that the H.264 has lost that protection/support, and that should a company decide to sue the H.264 Corporate users (and not the VP8 Corporate users), no one will be going out of their way to defend H.264 by compiling thousands of prior art examples (in fact, I suspect that many of us will be assisting the company that's doing the suing instead).
You've read the article! That's completely uncool. You're ruining it for the rest of us. Next time, please include a ***SPOILER*** alert in your comment.
Android for mobile phones being open source is useless because you cannot get drivers for any of the hardware, so you cannot actually use your modifications with your device.
I'm not sure I understand. Which drivers are you afraid of not finding on an android phone? And also, what type of modifications are you referring to? Take bluetooth support for instance, it was yanked out of version 1.0, and put back around version 2.0.1 but that did not prevent anyone from implementing their own bluetooth C libraries in the mean time. Did you have a particular example in mind?
Not if you know you will be able to manipulate the recruits. China has a lot of control over the lives of those peoples relatives back home.
This assumes that all the Chinese expats even *like* their family back home. I can tell you from personal observation that the more a person stays in the US, the less and less they like their family from back home.
...the incentive is to go after the low-hanging fruit of big globs and ignore the smaller pieces.
Speak for yourself. The real challenge lies in manufacturing your own tar balls that can pass as the real thing, and yet manufacture them in such mass quantities that you can recoup your expenses and then some (of course, when I am speaking of expenses, I'm not counting the cost of ruining your mom's kitchen, her pots and bathtub, nor am I including the cost of retarring your neighbors roof and driveway. They have jobs. You don't. They can certainly afford to subsidize your entrepreneurial spirit).
That is not the point in these cases unfortunately. HR departments esp ones with affirmative action offices can often take unilateral action against you without any proof at all.
Not quite. I remember a woman being accused of theft of a cell phone, punished, and severely slandered/libeled by her HR department. And she eventually won a huge judgment against her former employer (I don't know if the amount was upheld on appeal, it probably wasn't, but it was something like 40 million dollars). Granted, she could produce a receipt and credit card transactions predating the incident and proving her innocence beyond the shadow of a doubt, but my point is that the company paid dearly for not even checking the facts that the accused was alleging at the time before even issuing their punishment.
In this case, it would seem the investigators didn't even interview the supposed witness. This can be really problematic in a case like that. Had they interviewed him/her at least, and then dismissed his/her story, that's one thing, but not even interviewing a key witness, and then issuing sanctions anyway -- that's completely irresponsible.
In the US, a company (even a University) would be stupid to do something like that, as it would be opening itself up for all kinds of liability and penalties. In Ireland, where punitive damages are non-existent, it might not be as risky, but then again, workers rights are much more significant over there.
You know that for Windows Mobile 7, apps need Microsoft's approval, don't you?
Do you mean to say that Microsoft is now going to force developers to publish through its app store and nothing else? I did not know that. Citation needed please.
Can someone tell me about the scanners for containers in ports? My neighbor is a trucker, and he asked me about that. Apparently, as the driver, he has to go through the scanner himself pretty frequently (it's the port of Oakland in California if that makes a difference).
Editorializing and rendering subjective interpretations is what we do around here.
Hopefully, you can tell the difference between a panel of Academic investigators investigating a very serious accusation and the rambles of a random poster on Slashdot.
No, she refused the apology and the *mediation*. Mediation is not counseling.
But I agree with you, this woman is super shy. I'd go as far as to say that she's far too passive-aggressive. Even if you take what she says as the truth (which is disputed by the accused, and his supposed witness, that the investigators supposedly didn't interview), there wasn't a single time she told him that his behavior was inappropriate, and I'm sorry but saying "No, I'm too busy right now" does not count as effectively enforcing a boundary.
I tell others "No, I'm too busy right now" all the time. That doesn't mean that I find them creepy, or that all those people are sexually harassing me.
Yeah, and Google Docs helpfully removes change tracking from documents created in OpenOffice.org or Symphony and saved in ODF (any version), too. I'm looking forward to the flood of complaints about IBM and Oracle writing change-tracking metadata that Google Docs loses on import.;-) Who needs standards like ODF and OXML when Google has a nice proprietary change-tracking approach we can all use?
Ah!!! You had me, and I was totally with you, until you implied that OpenXML was an open standard!!
Saying the truth about Google Docs doesn't necessarily mean that you're saying the truth about Microsoft's Proprietary OpenXML format. An open standards zealout would never have made that mistake. But thanks for playing. Better luck next time.;-)
In any setting there are expectations of a professional level of behaviour, and he chose not to abide by them.
This guy is a Lecturer in Behavioural Science at a "supposed" School of Medicine!! What do you think his ***profession*** requires of him? What do you think he's paid to do? Is he required to discuss morally safe topics? Is he required to only talk about the Little House on the Prairie and other PG-Safe topics? What would be the point?
The transmission of diseases rarely limits itself to PG-13 safe topics. Vectors of disease transmissions are rarely that palatable, or clean. A behavioral scientist in a school of medicine is, of course, going to study and lecture about abnormal behaviors. Whatever it is: Eating feces, promiscuity, infections, fellatios, incest, etc. I wouldn't expect anything else from the talks of a behavioral scientist in a "supposed" School of Medicine.
No one in academia can claim not to understand where the line is drawn when interacting with other colleagues.
This word "academia", as accurate as it may be in this case, loses the most salient underlying context. This is not an Art School, or even an English Lit School, the Science of Medicine is an infinitely more practical, pragmatic, and less clean professional environment, than what you would normally find in other Ivory Towers.
And for good reasons. When someone gets squimish in Art History, nothing bad happens, but when someone gets squimish in Medicine, people die.
"It was just a joke" has long since ceased to be an adequate excuse for offensive behaviour.
And yes, the accused is taking issue with the "bad joke" interpretation. He's even taking to task one of the investigators for some of the things he said during the investigation. One would think that a panel of faculty members would be a little more willing to find out the facts, and interview witnesses (which they haven't done yet), instead of just editorializing their personal opinions and rendering subjective interpretations.
Well, if true, I guess you could count my (rather large) organization as one that would never used Google Docs. Tracking changes alone is a feature used extensively by our business departments.
Well, I think you will prefer Google Docs/Spreadsheets then. With Google Docs/Spreadsheet, revision tracking is turned on by default. Google Docs / Spreadsheets is really a collaborative platform built from the ground up.
You'll just have to be careful when you import any ongoing existing Word/Excel documents into Google Docs. It's only the importing process that will lose that info. After that, Google Docs/Google Spreadsheets will track any changes that are made within it.
And if you're really worried about losing existing tracking information, or having to maintain a large backup of old Word/Excel files separately (which you should have anyway), then don't migrate to Google Docs / Spreadsheets, and don't even migrate to any new versions of Microsoft Word or Excel. I really doubt that Microsoft's own converters between different major releases are even that smart, that they will retain that meta information during the conversion process.
That guy's online offering obviously will, otherwise, he wouldn't be bragging about it right now, but I really doubt this type of feature was working that well in the past, or that it will continue to work that smoothly in the future. Converting Word Documents between major versions was never an elegant process. In my case at least, it always seemed to lose my original formatting (and god only knows how many other things it lost, that were not immediately visible to me at the time).
So we are equal and i got a phone that can actually use AT&T's 3G service and not stuck on dial up speeds of t-mobile.
You mean that you got one of the few phones that doesn't work properly on T-Mobile's Standard 3G Network (so it reverts to Edge). What is that? A defect by design? Did you have to pay extra to get that defect implemented?
(note AT&T 3G's service is highly variable then again so is verizon's, and yes I have compared the two we did some wandering tests at my company over 600 sq miles of area In the end AT&T won roughly equal service area and speeds and AT&T came in at 40% less a year in savings.
What? No discounts? You should talk to HR. My company chose AT&T too, but had them give all of us discounted personal and family cell phone plans.
You mean: The carriers and/or the Manufacturers are spending a fortune on ads. So far, I've mostly seen Droid commercials, not really Nexus commercials.
there was an attempt to return it but Apple was too stupid to take it.
No, there wasn't. RTFA. Steve Jobs spoke to him on the phone. And he wrote an email to Steve Jobs, clearly admitting that he knew it was Apple's phone, but refusing to return the phone unless Apple made a public announcement.
I used to work for ABC news and we never kept archive footage always accessible like you want. If we wanted something that was really old we'd have to dig it off a tape, an unplugged hard drive or powered off computer
That system works fine when you only have old technology, plus a government-granted monopoly, and an unlimited number of unpaid interns at your beck and call, but what about the rest of us -- the little people? How are we supposed to fetch our own coffees? or skim our porn collections instantly?
How about this? How about we let the police detectives focus on the mountain of unsolved violent crimes around San Francisco
Policing the violent crimes of other cities is not in their mandate, jurisdiction, or even funding.
If you really do live in San Francisco, and are afraid of the crime there, may be you should just move to Redwood City or Fremont. It would be nice if you could steal the better cops, the better schools, and the better emergency services from other cities that are doing a better job at it than your own, without having to move to those cities yourself, but I'm afraid that's really not how the World works.
Do you remember Comcast paying bus-loads of people to come occupy the seats at the FCC hearing so that other legitimate participants could be turned away from it?
I still do not understand why they were never charged with anything criminal in that instance. Flooding a public hearing put on by a Federal regulatory agency with bogus participants should be considered the same as flooding that same Federal regulatory agency with bogus phone calls (or bogus packets). The purpose is the same, to deny that service to others during that crucial time-limited window. Whoever had that brilliant idea at Comcast should face criminal charges for it (even if that person just gets a probationary criminal sentence, at least, it should make others PR managers think twice before doing something this manipulative again).
And before someone brings up free speech, please watch the videos taken during the hearing. Those people bused-in had no idea what the hearing was about. They were tagged with post-it notes by Comcast overseers and basically corralled like cattle to take as much space as possible. Their sole purpose was to occupy space, occupy seats (and make a little bit of money for themselves), so that others could be turned away from the room during that critical public hearing phase. It really shouldn't be too hard to subpoena those shills, and protect them from any NDA reprisals they may have signed.
Those Turkmenistanies must be a bunch of wimps, or devil worshipers. Putin should just re-annex Turkmenistan, nuke the gate repeatedly until it stops burning, and just show Satan and his flock who's the real new Prince of Darkness once and for all.
May be, their intent is just the opposite. If you can prevent some of the sugar highs the kids are experiencing, then you don't need to be watching all of them as closely during the rest of the day.
It's usually the kids that are high on sugar that will hit/provoke other kids during class, and it's usually those same kids that will start dozing off during class after their sugar high is over (assuming it's not just the teacher himself that's putting them to sleep with a boring lecture of course, it's definitely not always the sugar intake that's at fault). And don't just take my word for this, if you ever have kids, or if you're ever babysitting, test this idea out on them, monitor their sugar intake and their protein intake, and try to see if those different nutritional intakes result in different behaviors.
If you want to make a statement like that, do it yourself. Don't put your kid in the middle of a battle between two authority figures. The school can do a lot more damage to your kid, than your kid can do to them.
I say, meet with the school officials yourself, and if you really want to be obnoxious, make sure that your hands are super sticky when you shake their hands, and make sure to speak with your mouth full of candy.
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So, how did you know he read the article?
The same way I know you read it too. My body excretes billions of air-floating nano-particules that are capable of video-recording and re-broadcasting back everything they see in (almost) Real Time.
Um what part of the obvious here did you miss?
Condescending much?
...there's tons of other companies who think they have a patent claim against VP8.
[Citation needed.] And no, don't give me a hearsay citation of the MPEG LA consortium itself, nor a citation of one of their numerous member companies, or employees, or one of their lawyers/PR firm on retainer. After all, when SCO's reason for living was threatened, they said all kinds of unsubstantiated lies in order to try to convince us of their claims. Why should it be any different in this case?
There's absolutely nothing Google can do about that or grant you any form of license for or immunity against.
Just like there is nothing the MPEG LA can do to give you immunity against a patent troll who's not a members of theirs (isn't this obvious as well?).
In fact, if you want slightly better protection, I'd suggest you go with the open standard that's currently being offered royalty-free and in perpetuity by Google. I am no psychic, and I can not tell what the future will hold, but one thing that I can tell you for sure is that when companies try to go against open standards/open source offered in good will by a major corporation, they're not just going against a huge corporate Juggernaut, they're going against all the open source/open standards zealouts of the World at the very same time.
And before this announcement, H.264 was fine, it had the protection of all the zealouts out there (including myself), but now that there is a better offer on the table (one that comes with no threat, no expiration, and no strings that are at least implicitly attached). You can rest assured that the H.264 has lost that protection/support, and that should a company decide to sue the H.264 Corporate users (and not the VP8 Corporate users), no one will be going out of their way to defend H.264 by compiling thousands of prior art examples (in fact, I suspect that many of us will be assisting the company that's doing the suing instead).
You've read the article! That's completely uncool. You're ruining it for the rest of us. Next time, please include a ***SPOILER*** alert in your comment.
You mean the SPCA??? As far as I know, PETA is just a militant web site that's better at grabbing headlines than the SPCA.
Android for mobile phones being open source is useless because you cannot get drivers for any of the hardware, so you cannot actually use your modifications with your device.
I'm not sure I understand. Which drivers are you afraid of not finding on an android phone? And also, what type of modifications are you referring to? Take bluetooth support for instance, it was yanked out of version 1.0, and put back around version 2.0.1 but that did not prevent anyone from implementing their own bluetooth C libraries in the mean time. Did you have a particular example in mind?
Not if you know you will be able to manipulate the recruits. China has a lot of control over the lives of those peoples relatives back home.
This assumes that all the Chinese expats even *like* their family back home. I can tell you from personal observation that the more a person stays in the US, the less and less they like their family from back home.
Thanks. :)
...the incentive is to go after the low-hanging fruit of big globs and ignore the smaller pieces.
Speak for yourself. The real challenge lies in manufacturing your own tar balls that can pass as the real thing, and yet manufacture them in such mass quantities that you can recoup your expenses and then some (of course, when I am speaking of expenses, I'm not counting the cost of ruining your mom's kitchen, her pots and bathtub, nor am I including the cost of retarring your neighbors roof and driveway. They have jobs. You don't. They can certainly afford to subsidize your entrepreneurial spirit).
That is not the point in these cases unfortunately. HR departments esp ones with affirmative action offices can often take unilateral action against you without any proof at all.
Not quite. I remember a woman being accused of theft of a cell phone, punished, and severely slandered/libeled by her HR department. And she eventually won a huge judgment against her former employer (I don't know if the amount was upheld on appeal, it probably wasn't, but it was something like 40 million dollars). Granted, she could produce a receipt and credit card transactions predating the incident and proving her innocence beyond the shadow of a doubt, but my point is that the company paid dearly for not even checking the facts that the accused was alleging at the time before even issuing their punishment.
In this case, it would seem the investigators didn't even interview the supposed witness. This can be really problematic in a case like that. Had they interviewed him/her at least, and then dismissed his/her story, that's one thing, but not even interviewing a key witness, and then issuing sanctions anyway -- that's completely irresponsible.
In the US, a company (even a University) would be stupid to do something like that, as it would be opening itself up for all kinds of liability and penalties. In Ireland, where punitive damages are non-existent, it might not be as risky, but then again, workers rights are much more significant over there.
You know that for Windows Mobile 7, apps need Microsoft's approval, don't you?
Do you mean to say that Microsoft is now going to force developers to publish through its app store and nothing else? I did not know that. Citation needed please.
Can someone tell me about the scanners for containers in ports? My neighbor is a trucker, and he asked me about that. Apparently, as the driver, he has to go through the scanner himself pretty frequently (it's the port of Oakland in California if that makes a difference).
Editorializing and rendering subjective interpretations is what we do around here.
Hopefully, you can tell the difference between a panel of Academic investigators investigating a very serious accusation and the rambles of a random poster on Slashdot.
No, she refused the apology and the *mediation*. Mediation is not counseling.
But I agree with you, this woman is super shy. I'd go as far as to say that she's far too passive-aggressive. Even if you take what she says as the truth (which is disputed by the accused, and his supposed witness, that the investigators supposedly didn't interview), there wasn't a single time she told him that his behavior was inappropriate, and I'm sorry but saying "No, I'm too busy right now" does not count as effectively enforcing a boundary.
I tell others "No, I'm too busy right now" all the time. That doesn't mean that I find them creepy, or that all those people are sexually harassing me.
Yeah, and Google Docs helpfully removes change tracking from documents created in OpenOffice.org or Symphony and saved in ODF (any version), too. I'm looking forward to the flood of complaints about IBM and Oracle writing change-tracking metadata that Google Docs loses on import. ;-) Who needs standards like ODF and OXML when Google has a nice proprietary change-tracking approach we can all use?
Ah!!! You had me, and I was totally with you, until you implied that OpenXML was an open standard!!
Saying the truth about Google Docs doesn't necessarily mean that you're saying the truth about Microsoft's Proprietary OpenXML format. An open standards zealout would never have made that mistake. But thanks for playing. Better luck next time. ;-)
In any setting there are expectations of a professional level of behaviour, and he chose not to abide by them.
This guy is a Lecturer in Behavioural Science at a "supposed" School of Medicine!! What do you think his ***profession*** requires of him? What do you think he's paid to do? Is he required to discuss morally safe topics? Is he required to only talk about the Little House on the Prairie and other PG-Safe topics? What would be the point?
The transmission of diseases rarely limits itself to PG-13 safe topics. Vectors of disease transmissions are rarely that palatable, or clean. A behavioral scientist in a school of medicine is, of course, going to study and lecture about abnormal behaviors. Whatever it is: Eating feces, promiscuity, infections, fellatios, incest, etc. I wouldn't expect anything else from the talks of a behavioral scientist in a "supposed" School of Medicine.
No one in academia can claim not to understand where the line is drawn when interacting with other colleagues.
This word "academia", as accurate as it may be in this case, loses the most salient underlying context. This is not an Art School, or even an English Lit School, the Science of Medicine is an infinitely more practical, pragmatic, and less clean professional environment, than what you would normally find in other Ivory Towers. And for good reasons. When someone gets squimish in Art History, nothing bad happens, but when someone gets squimish in Medicine, people die.
"It was just a joke" has long since ceased to be an adequate excuse for offensive behaviour.
And yes, the accused is taking issue with the "bad joke" interpretation. He's even taking to task one of the investigators for some of the things he said during the investigation. One would think that a panel of faculty members would be a little more willing to find out the facts, and interview witnesses (which they haven't done yet), instead of just editorializing their personal opinions and rendering subjective interpretations.
Well, if true, I guess you could count my (rather large) organization as one that would never used Google Docs. Tracking changes alone is a feature used extensively by our business departments.
Well, I think you will prefer Google Docs/Spreadsheets then. With Google Docs/Spreadsheet, revision tracking is turned on by default. Google Docs / Spreadsheets is really a collaborative platform built from the ground up.
You'll just have to be careful when you import any ongoing existing Word/Excel documents into Google Docs. It's only the importing process that will lose that info. After that, Google Docs/Google Spreadsheets will track any changes that are made within it.
And if you're really worried about losing existing tracking information, or having to maintain a large backup of old Word/Excel files separately (which you should have anyway), then don't migrate to Google Docs / Spreadsheets, and don't even migrate to any new versions of Microsoft Word or Excel. I really doubt that Microsoft's own converters between different major releases are even that smart, that they will retain that meta information during the conversion process.
That guy's online offering obviously will, otherwise, he wouldn't be bragging about it right now, but I really doubt this type of feature was working that well in the past, or that it will continue to work that smoothly in the future. Converting Word Documents between major versions was never an elegant process. In my case at least, it always seemed to lose my original formatting (and god only knows how many other things it lost, that were not immediately visible to me at the time).
So we are equal and i got a phone that can actually use AT&T's 3G service and not stuck on dial up speeds of t-mobile.
You mean that you got one of the few phones that doesn't work properly on T-Mobile's Standard 3G Network (so it reverts to Edge). What is that? A defect by design? Did you have to pay extra to get that defect implemented?
(note AT&T 3G's service is highly variable then again so is verizon's, and yes I have compared the two we did some wandering tests at my company over 600 sq miles of area In the end AT&T won roughly equal service area and speeds and AT&T came in at 40% less a year in savings.
What? No discounts? You should talk to HR. My company chose AT&T too, but had them give all of us discounted personal and family cell phone plans.
They're spending fortunes on ads, right now,
You mean: The carriers and/or the Manufacturers are spending a fortune on ads. So far, I've mostly seen Droid commercials, not really Nexus commercials.
there was an attempt to return it but Apple was too stupid to take it.
No, there wasn't. RTFA. Steve Jobs spoke to him on the phone. And he wrote an email to Steve Jobs, clearly admitting that he knew it was Apple's phone, but refusing to return the phone unless Apple made a public announcement.
I used to work for ABC news and we never kept archive footage always accessible like you want. If we wanted something that was really old we'd have to dig it off a tape, an unplugged hard drive or powered off computer
That system works fine when you only have old technology, plus a government-granted monopoly, and an unlimited number of unpaid interns at your beck and call, but what about the rest of us -- the little people? How are we supposed to fetch our own coffees? or skim our porn collections instantly?
How about this? How about we let the police detectives focus on the mountain of unsolved violent crimes around San Francisco
Policing the violent crimes of other cities is not in their mandate, jurisdiction, or even funding.
If you really do live in San Francisco, and are afraid of the crime there, may be you should just move to Redwood City or Fremont. It would be nice if you could steal the better cops, the better schools, and the better emergency services from other cities that are doing a better job at it than your own, without having to move to those cities yourself, but I'm afraid that's really not how the World works.
Do you remember Comcast paying bus-loads of people to come occupy the seats at the FCC hearing so that other legitimate participants could be turned away from it?
I still do not understand why they were never charged with anything criminal in that instance. Flooding a public hearing put on by a Federal regulatory agency with bogus participants should be considered the same as flooding that same Federal regulatory agency with bogus phone calls (or bogus packets). The purpose is the same, to deny that service to others during that crucial time-limited window. Whoever had that brilliant idea at Comcast should face criminal charges for it (even if that person just gets a probationary criminal sentence, at least, it should make others PR managers think twice before doing something this manipulative again).
And before someone brings up free speech, please watch the videos taken during the hearing. Those people bused-in had no idea what the hearing was about. They were tagged with post-it notes by Comcast overseers and basically corralled like cattle to take as much space as possible. Their sole purpose was to occupy space, occupy seats (and make a little bit of money for themselves), so that others could be turned away from the room during that critical public hearing phase. It really shouldn't be too hard to subpoena those shills, and protect them from any NDA reprisals they may have signed.
Those Turkmenistanies must be a bunch of wimps, or devil worshipers. Putin should just re-annex Turkmenistan, nuke the gate repeatedly until it stops burning, and just show Satan and his flock who's the real new Prince of Darkness once and for all.
Wow, bunch of control freaks, huh?
May be, their intent is just the opposite. If you can prevent some of the sugar highs the kids are experiencing, then you don't need to be watching all of them as closely during the rest of the day.
It's usually the kids that are high on sugar that will hit/provoke other kids during class, and it's usually those same kids that will start dozing off during class after their sugar high is over (assuming it's not just the teacher himself that's putting them to sleep with a boring lecture of course, it's definitely not always the sugar intake that's at fault). And don't just take my word for this, if you ever have kids, or if you're ever babysitting, test this idea out on them, monitor their sugar intake and their protein intake, and try to see if those different nutritional intakes result in different behaviors.
If you want to make a statement like that, do it yourself. Don't put your kid in the middle of a battle between two authority figures. The school can do a lot more damage to your kid, than your kid can do to them.
I say, meet with the school officials yourself, and if you really want to be obnoxious, make sure that your hands are super sticky when you shake their hands, and make sure to speak with your mouth full of candy.