"[The government] is paying 4.7% interest on 10-year Treasury bonds right now, while the private sector is paying upwards of 8%. Largely because of this disparity, a British parliamentary study in 2011 found PPPs were likely to end up costing twice as much as other comparable projects."

#SimonWilson, 2025

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/road-tolls-ppps-and-the-investment-summit-time-for-some-honesty-simon-wilson/UJJKPOL6RZFZJM26NK4DC2JKDA/

#HatTip to Gordon Campbell, who quoted this pithy fact in his own piece on Public Private Partnerships;

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2503/S00039/gordon-campbell-on-winston-peters-bad-trip-and-the-return-of-the-ppps-zombie.htm

Kaum sind Milliarden Euro im Gespräch, sollen #öpp #ppp als alte Idee in neuen Schläuchen wiederbelebt werden?
Können öffentlich-private Partnerschaften die Infrastruktur retten? | tagesschau.de
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/konjunktur/investitionen-verschuldung-oeffentlich-private-partnerschaften-100.html

Dabei ist klar, dass die IMMER teurer sind, weil ja immer Dritte mit verdienen. D.h. sie helfen nicht bei klammen Kassen, genau so wenig, wie das Tafelsilber zu verscheuern.

more fraud in the state whose laws are designed to make it easy to commit fraud: #Wyoming (represented by #CynthiaLummis, the American senate's bitcoin broette-in-chief)

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/millions-in-covid-relief-funds-went-to-shadowy-companies-at-a-wyoming-storefront-that-hundreds-of-thousands-of-firms-used-as-an-address/

Has someone running #SFOS / #SailfishOS on a #PPP / #PinephonePro without issues? I've installed it on Friday and can't get mobile data working while phone calls are working great. Would be nice to know where to start troubleshooting.
#mobileLinux

Zahajujeme soutěžní dialog na koncesionáře pro dostavbu a provoz části D35 metodou PPP! Dálnice D35, nejrozestavěnější silniční spojení v ČR, se blíží k dokončení. Ministerstvo dopravy jedná se 4 kvalifikovanými konsorcii, což potvrzuje zájem zahraničních investorů o české PPP projekty. Těšíme se na rychlejší cestování a kvalitní infrastrukturu! #D35 #PPP #Doprava #Infrastruktura

Více informací najdete zde:
https://tiskovec.cz/clanky/zahajujeme-soutezni-dialog-na-koncesionare-pro-dostavbu-a-provoz-casti-d35-metodou-ppp?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_article

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542180/going-private-is-it-the-answer-to-public-health-woes The public sector cannot pay clinicians the level of payment that perhaps many of them will need to have the lifestyle they expect.

"The offset to that is that when they provide all that good work to the public at a particular rate, they have the ability to augment that by providing private services as well." #nzpol #healthcrisis #ppp

#PPP in action (Public-Predating Proprietorship);

"In July 2015, a public health notice was issued for Kāeo's water supply in the Far North, telling customers connected to the privately operated town supply to boil all drinking water for at least two minutes.

The notice said the town supply was 'temporarily unsafe' and the operator was working with authorities to lift the notice as soon as possible.

Almost a decade on the boil water notice is still in place."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541921/residents-fed-up-after-ten-year-boil-water-notice-water-supplier-says-there-s-been-no-complaints

Ursula von der Leyen lance le plus grand partenariat public-privé au monde pour gagner la course à l’IA
https://www.euractiv.fr/section/intelligence-artificielle/news/ursula-von-der-leyen-lance-le-plus-grand-partenariat-public-prive-au-monde-pour-gagner-la-course-a-lia/

Lors de son discours au Sommet sur l’intelligence artificielle ( #IA ) à Paris, la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, a annoncé l’initiative #InvestAI. Ce plan de 50 milliards d’euros devrait doter les usines d’IA de 8 milliards d’euros supplémentaires.

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La course de l'IA qui débouche droit dans le mur, et avec de l'argent public.

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Lisez donc cet excellent article de la Revue Dessinée sur les infâmes #PPP :
https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/saint-nazaire-44600/le-financement-de-lhopital-denonce-dans-une-bd-4288200 #revuedessinee #LQDN #Hiatus

#PPP 2.5.2 has been released (#pppd / #PointToPointProtocolDeamon / #PointToPointProtocol / #PPPoE / #PPPoA / #PPPoL2TP / #PointToPoint / #InternetProtocol / #IPv4 / #IPv6 / #EAP / #ExtensibleAuthenticationProtocol / #EAPTLS / #EAPMSCHAPv2 / #RADIUS / #SecureRemotePasswordProtocol) https://ppp.samba.org/

Забытые технологии: PPP

В наше время, когда в каждой квартире интернет "течет" буквально из розетки, из порта роутера или прилетает по WiFi - никто не вспоминает о таком анахронизме как аналоговый модем. А когда-то интернет добывали из модемов: обычные пользователи, они же ламеры, перебирали различные варианты программ-звонилок и "драйверов", а настоящие айтишники настраивали PPP вручную. Как это работало и зачем может пригодиться сегодня (а оно может):

https://habr.com/ru/articles/871196/

سندھ کی یزیدی پیپلز پارٹی صوبائی حکومت کا مظلومینِ پاراچنار کے حمایت کے لیے جاری پُرامن احتجاجی دھرنے پر کریک ڈاؤن۔ عباس ٹاؤن کراچی میں ظلم و بربریت کی انتہاء۔ جمہوریت کے دعویداروں کا آمرانہ رویہ۔ ریاستی طاقت کا بے دریغ استعمال پُرامن غیر مسلح شہریوں پر۔
#Karachi #KarachiProtest #ParachinarDharna #MWM #MWMPakistan #Pakistan #ParachinarCrisis #AttackOnPeacefulSitInProtests #MWMKarachi #MWMKarachiProtest #AbbasTown #PPP

The turmoil in South Korean politics continues as opposition leader Lee Jae-myung pushes for President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment to prevent his own criminal convictions from disqualifying him from the presidency https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/30/world/south-koreas-impeachment-saga/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #leejaemyung #dp #ppp #southkorea #handucksoo #yoonsukyeol

https://www.europesays.com/1721108/ South Korean lawmakers impeach second president in two weeks #ActingPresident #Conflicts #ConstitutionalCourt #FinanceMinisterChoi #HanDuckSoo #ImpeachmentMotion #ImpeachmentProcess #lawmakers #NorthKorea #PPP #SouthKorea #YoonSukYeol

Long live Benazir Bhutto!

#BaaghiTV #Opinions #Politics #Pakistan #Poetry #Poem #PakistaniPolitics #PPP #PakistanPeoplesParty #BenazirBhutto #MohtarmaBenzairBhuttoShaheed

https://en.baaghitv.com/long-live-benazir-bhutto/