OK then. Let's break down why I think that two of these things aren't failures.
Bulldozer - Good try from AMD. They're entirely rewriting the rules of the CPU structure, and they've got a good overclocker. It doesn't perform up to the competition in some regards, but it isn't a true failure. Modifications of the architecture are powering some awesome APUs our there. They aren't the most powerful, but they make a $400 PC seem like a reasonable proposition.
SB-E - The failure here isn't in the silicon. Having 2 cores lasered off of an 8 core processor blows, but SB was a beast. It overclocked well, it was fully unlocked (barring the 3820 shenanigans), and the performance comparison between 1136 and 2011 was about everything that you could reasonably ask for. My qualms arise in the PCH. It was 45 nm trash, that should never have been released. It works enough not to be a complete failure, but was definitely a disappointment.
The other two are problematic. Most of TV is idiotic, but not having cable insulates me from Sarah Michelle Gellar. Politicians are 100% failure, and they've really managed to somehow prevent anyone from doing anything about it. They can pass laws, then exempt themselves from them. They can pass laws without ever reading the. They can change and append laws without ever being held accountable for them. That'd be like if your computer could turn off in the middle of a game (without your consent), turn on at 2am when nobody is present (and run super pi for no reason), and then the OS randomly deactivates attached hardware for a random amount of time. If that were my computer I'd throw it out, and has to be the definition of a failure.
