But it was a growing traffic nuisance in southern municipalities like Maastricht, where Belgians and Germans drove to buy drugs, that proved the tipping point.
In the southern city of Maastricht, sandwiched between the German and Belgian borders, hundreds of drug tourists drive in daily from elsewhere in Europe to purchase marijuana, creating an infuriating traffic nuisance.
On Route 47, Yvonne Glauner, who runs Two Pines Country Gifts in a shop behind her parents' farmhouse, said most people considered the traffic a nuisance, but not one to be solved by a new four-lane highway.
Be sure that I have personally requested that Lord Siva place extra oil slicks, potholes, and other forms of traffic-related nuisance on his "route" until he realizes the "error" of his ways and comes back, tail between his legs, to the Cuyahoga, where we will not "embrace" his "return" "by any means".
"British modems are certainly being used for this," said Blessing, who said that the London Internet Exchange — which routes traffic in and out of the UK — had been helping to block nuisance traffic aimed at Spamhaus.
CloudFlare, a security firm which Spamhaus engaged to fend off the attack, says at one point nuisance traffic flooded in at 300 gigabytes per second.
They consist of floods of nuisance traffic, which slows or crashes the victims' websites, leaving them offline, unable to send e-mail, process orders, make bank transactions or (for governments) run the country.Teenage pranksters in the 1990s used DDoS attacks to boot enemies from internet chat rooms.
In March CloudFlare helped Spamhaus, a spam-fighting charity, against nuisance traffic which flooded in at an unprecedented 300 gigabits per second, almost 200 times faster than an average assault.As well as roping in collaborators, most attackers use botnets: vast networks of virus-infected computers that obey secret commands from a faraway "bot-herder".
Sex workers also described how police used other non-prostitution-related offences (eg, administrative laws such as traffic violations, public nuisance) to target sex workers and clients.
Home prices will keep on going up, traffic will remain a nuisance.
