You can tell Microsoft is especially proud of this detail: the first Surface ad emphasizes that feature to the point where Windows RT's various features more or less take a backseat.
As with other pieces of early Japanese pottery, one feature of the Aomori find is the exquisite rope-like pattern pressed into its surface for decoration.
It remains defective as the treaty has yet to be amended and its central feature remains - the establishment of a supranational agency to govern three quarters of the world's surface and the oceans and airspace above them.