Instead of incessant, rapid beeping, the Protect beeps intermittently and a robot voice alerts the home owner about what is happening, with messages like "Heads-up, there's smoke in the bedroom" or "Emergency, there's smoke".
It's kind of like the extreme political bipolarity in America, except instead of incessant bitching from armchairs, everyone has AK-47s, hates Israel, and might kidnap your family just to get a point across.
Even so, baseball could only hope its season was kicking off with trumpets-from-heaven sounds, instead of that incessant buzzing about steroids.
But for us to get to the core of what we have in common via our shared humanity requires deep listening instead of the incessant evangelical chatter that I encountered not only throughout my trip but during this 2012 US presidential election cycle as well.
That's because they know the American people would reject their radical plans if they came out and told the truth instead of their incessant and pathetic lies.
The truth is that teachers just need to be left alone to do their jobs, instead of facing incessant interference from the latest fads imposed on them by administrators and legislators, most of whom have never spent a single day in a classroom in front of difficult students.
If we could actually be OK with whatever came our way while parenting -- instead of fighting the incessant urge to control everything?
"Instead of yielding to the incessant, extreme Republican demands as the president, in many respects, did in last year's tax vote and this year's spending negotiations, the president has got to get out of the beltway... and rally the overwhelming majority of people who believe that deficit reduction must be based on shared sacrifice," Sanders said.
Instead of giving into my incessant complaining, rather than shutting me up by just telling me, she taught me to figure things out even if I didn't know where to begin to make the problem go away, that is, to solve the problem.
It's still sending up little reminders to me, but instead of the loud and incessant alarm necessary to drown out all the other noise, they're quiet chirps like the smoke alarm on its last legs, easy to ignore and probably just as dangerous.
Instead of sirens, there is the incessant ringing of cowbells by the visitors from the Netherlands, who are celebrating their country's victories in -- well, actually, they started ringing them before the opening ceremony and have not stopped.
