Change your future ?

Today I was watching Krishh ... (The Indian SuperHero :) ) for the second time in the afternoon just for fun and some laugh (again) with a friend of mine ... The movie is partially copied from the Hollywood movie 'Paycheck' where Ben Affleck is the scientist who works hard and creates a machine to view / change future. During the testing phase (I guess ;) ), Ben Affleck finds out that he is going to be killed in the future and leaves a few clues for himself so that he can cheat his death and change future....

Ok. That said, my friend and I debated over this a lot ... How can one change his future ? The trick here is that if you change your future then it was not your future in the first place !! right ? If you predict that you are gonna be dead & that thats your future and you somehow cheat your death & are still alive, then death wasnt your future at all !! And well, if you die then, that was your future and you didnt change it ? It makes sense, isnt it ?

The machine if one is built ever, will show you your future ... If that did not happen, then all it means is that machine is faulty and it was a false positive ! thats all ... A true machine should show you all revisions of your future that you make ... what I mean is, it should show you the predicted future and then the one you changed it to and then you saw that one too and then the next attempt of changing it and so on ... First of all, this depends on person to person & secondly this could become uncontrollable as there could be 'n' number of revisions - n depends upon each person's IQ, his luck in changing the future successfully and his foolproofness of the plan each time ... The factor that needs to be considered here is that, we live in a society and hence, changing one's future is going to affect thousand other futures !! Who is taking that into account ?

So, if you ask me, you can NEVER change your future ! If you do, then there can not be a machine which can show you the future !! What do y'all think ?

p.s. Also given a choice, would you change your future ?

Silent letters ??

Can someone explain why is 'Psychopath' spelled with a 'p' and 'Silent' is not ? I mean, whats the whole purpose of having a letter which is supposedly 'silent' ? According to me, these words are spelled that way just so that there could be 'spelling bee' contests and people could have some fun (or not :( )!

Language / script is to make life easy for people and not tough !! See, the spelling of tough could have easily been 'tuff' (like bluff ..) but NO !! They had to make that word really tough !! Jokes apart but why is a word spelled the way it is ? And more over if the spelling is assumed to be correct, then why is it pronunced the way it is ? Who decided all these rules ? Why could it not be simpler ?

Do you know any language (other than english) which does this ? Write something and say something else ? As far as I know, Marathi and Hindi dont ! Neither does Sanskrit ... in fact, with these languages its exactly opposite ! You make an effort to say the word the way its written and to write the way its said !! Then why is it like this in english ? How is it in Gujarati, french, German, Malyalam, Tamil ??? ... if yes, then why ? Any input is greatly appreciated !

American english helps out a bit by tweaking British english - removing a few 'u's & 'o's .. like color instead of colour ... and pronunce in stead of pronounce , etc ... But still the question remains ! Why does English - 'world's common language' have these 'silent' letters ? What good are 'letters' if they dont speak ???