Connected to powered speakers, the Jukebox becomes a stand-alone boom box.

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Colonial Mutual Life, one of Australia's oldest insurance companies, bought the site on which the eyesores stand at the height of a property boom in the late 1980s and pulled down a strip of crude, modern buildings.

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Another shift since the last comedy boom, which took place in the 1980s: The tools available for stand-up acts to cultivate their fan base have grown, explains Brian McKim, editor and publisher of online comedy source Sheckymagazine.

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Mr Gore wants to stand out as the man who can sustain the high-tech boom, and at the same time devise measures that protect the weak from technology's more alarming consequences.

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